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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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Please create/update izpca with record definition and tables for SMF 116 class 4 report and SMF_115 subtype 5,6,7

MQ team has been advised by IBM to use these reports and the IZPCA product doesn't have these defined.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Event Management

SA should support specifying more attributes to feed Event management. Examples include policy to define a key for deduplication, recipient, category, severity, filtering criteria, time windows and more. Also SA should ship the "standard" events o...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Message automation should be multiuser capable and dynamically updateable

Multiple users should be able to define message automation. Activation and deactivation of message automation should be independent from the rest of the policy and also dynamically without the need to code NetView Automation Table statements.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Optional clause for default value on >>DEFINE conditional-var AS PARAMETER

Add an optional clause to assign a default value on a conditional variable used as a parameter. This would be a simplified writing of : >>DEFINE conditional-var AS PARAMETER>>IF conditional-var IS NOT DEFINED>>DEFINE conditional-...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Additional NVPC/ZMOWN metrics to assess LP eligibility (TPFUG/Visa)

Good candidate workloads to run LP must have a low CPU burn per LP redispatch rate to ensure they will get out of the way of transactional work. Currently, the only way to ballpark the CPU burn per LP dispatch is to use CPU consumed and DASD FINDs...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Additional information of ZSOCK EXCEPTION display

When we try to find out a remote client who is causing an issue such as high number of retransmission or DOO we use ZSOCK EXCEPTION entry but we have to make another entry ZSOCK DISP FORMAT to find out DNS name and Port number for individual socke...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Flexible hostname lookup when using a proxy

Flexible hostname lookup is needed when using a proxy. CICS acting as a client can consume services/APIs on both internal (customer) and external (internet) networks. When consuming external services, CICS needs to route requests out through a pro...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

The Admin should not be allowed to view the usersession without the user being informed or asked

When the Administrator starts Monitoring a user he has the Option whether or not to ask the users permission . The user would always be asked and the Administartor would not have the Option to Monitor without the users permission.
almost 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

IBM JDK Kerberos compatibility

"Based on the JGSS documentation, IBM does not support the "storeKey" property as a JAAS option: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYKE2_7.0.0/com.ibm.java.security.api.doc/jgss/com/ibm/security/auth/module/Krb5LoginModule.html We ar...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance IZBR backup syntax structure to facilitate common language regardless of backup engine

IZBR supports backup tracking for a variety of z/OS backup utilities. Often a client running IZBR will incorporate IZBR specific backup procs based on a specific utility. When that client choses to adopt a new solution they can be faced with mass ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 1 Future consideration

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