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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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EQQSOPGD Panel Member parm for level restrictions

For the EQQSOPGD panel update, would like to see something as simple as a parameter update or more complicated, such as different levels of complexity (nesting detail) based on userid or something security related (there is already the ADEP f...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Need to have typical z/OS System Programmer commands available in E3270UI

Mostly all the commands related to a z/OS System Programmer should be available directly in E3270UI. To achieve this goal it would be sufficient to have a system console directly in E3270UI with different authorities capabilities (for example for ...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Service Management Unite Automation and Z-ChatOps included in ZDT.

"Service Management Unite Automation" and "Z-ChatOps" are included with the following products (free of charge): IBM Z Service Management Suite IBM Z Service Automation Suite IBM Z Monitoring Suite IBM Z System Automation As ADCD system includes "...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Alert on HALFDOWN

By default, System Automation creates an alert (INGALERT) if an application goes into BROKEN, ZOMBIE or STOPPED (OS_PROBLEM). HALFDOWN is a status as bad as the others and requires intervention (compound=problem), but SA doesn't react the same way...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Include IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2.1 to ADCD stack

I'm z/OS System Programmer and I use ZDT Personal Edition and ADCD to learn about installations/configurations and test new functions in z/OS. ZDT is mainly designed for developing, but i think it is a very useful tool for System Programmers too. ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Require Domain Specific DNS server support

The current DNS support defines a primary/secondary DNS server for name resolution. We have a requirement to be able to user our default DNS servers, but for specific Domain Names we need to access our customers DNS server for name resolution. The...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Change/increase MAXTP for IMS/TMEMBERs dynamically

Currently, to change the global limit for MAXTP or an individual TMEMBER limit, we need to edit the DFSYDT* members of the PROCLIB and recycle the IMS.
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

WEB UI functions to show volumes and datasets being provisioned

Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, for any dataset that is duplicated, the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is a request to provide a function that sh...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Change/increase MAXSOC for IMS Connect dynamically

The total number of sockets that IMS Connect supports across all TCP/IP ports at the same time is set by the MAXSOC parameter in the TCPIP configuration statement of the IMS Connect configuration member. If the number of sockets reaches the maximu...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Limit the size of drag and drop file in RDz

Need a way to control the file size for the "drag and drop" action from host to local. If the file size exceed a predefined value, the action should fail.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration