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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...
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Omegamon xe on z/OS improve Soft Capping monitoring information

The information available within the SMF Record 70 Subtype 1 fields: SMF70NSW and SMF70NCA are not available at the related Omegamon on z/OS "System CPU Utilization" attributes group. These information collected and available at the RMF level can ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

TS010125970 Allow customization of Wazi Image Builder

Hi, On all our z/OS Sysplexes , we have a shared read-only root filesystem, as recommended by IBM for better performance and reliability. Wazi image builder requires a Jar file wibMainframeSFTP.jar to be copied to /usr/lpp/IBM/wib - a location tha...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Send history of all completed TX tasks to Tivoli Monitoring with detailed task information as seen on the MONQ records

Currently Tivoli Monitoring for TX produces task history records only for those tasks which happen to be active precisely on the expiration of monitoring interval. Thus only a small fraction of all tasks. We would like to see all completed tasks i...
about 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Include CRL pem files as part of the ZPUBK REHASH process

Early in the design of our support of SSL, we decided to combine the CA certificates into one file and use the CAFILE config parameter. We went from 3 CA certificates to 22 CA certificates, also daily we create a new CA file that is combined with ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Auto Refresh for anything that is manually changed

Please refer to the delivered description of RFE ID 80759: Hyperlinked properties when updated should auto refresh automatically in DWC. If a job is reset manually, it would be nice if DWC auto refreshes the page immediately. This would be applica...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Workload Service Assurance

Workload Service Assurance: When the Estimated Start Time or optionally the Estimated End Time of a critical job has past and the job has not started, automatically recalculate new Estimated Start and End Times for the critical job. Even with RECC...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CICS Explorer support for additional NEWCOPY options under 'Program Operations View'

We need below additional NEWCOPY options added under Program Operations View:1. Last NewCopy Time 2. NEWCOPY Success Count 3. NEWCOPY Fail Count
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

INGTWS : Logging and use of Exit AOFEXC21 for Displays needed

We use INGTWS to do requests against our IWS-Controller in production environments. In normal cases the interface works fine, but we are unable to analyse failure situations which occured with REQUEST=DISPLAY in the follow up. With REQUEST=MODIFY ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide AWS message identifiers for oprmsg messages

The customer would like to see the message "1090 not running" that is returned when the instance is not running to be documented in the man files. A better solution would be to provide AWS message ids that could be looked up with the msginfo comma...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

FM/IMS Database Compare

This Idea is for a FM/IMS function to do a formatted/synchronized database compare. The goal is to compare a database before and after it is changed, to report on what changed. This is probably a multi-step process: Generate and run a batch job to...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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