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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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Provide ENQ / DEQ services

We are migrating Rexx code to Python, some of our Rexx code calls a Module that issues ENQ / DEQ to serialize some processing against other ZOS processes running. We would like to issue an ENQ/DEQ from Python through a ZOAU function.
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

zPCR and zBNA - Offer as a zOSMF Plugin

zPCR and zBNA should be available as zOSMF Plugins to avoid SMF data to be exported off platform. Both Plugins relay on SMF data which is stored and protected on the Mainframe. Currently we have to offload them via FTP to an other platform where w...
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Launch “User Build” for more than one cobol program at a time.

It would be very useful to be able to run the “DBB” for more than one program at a time. That is, select two or more cobol programs, right click and launch a dependency based build for these two selected programs. I understand the problem with the...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

IMS API first approach

See https://github.com/zosconnect/sample-cics-api-first Would be great if this API first approach would not be limited to CICS, should also be possible for IMS. Eliminates the need to maintain the designer installation and learn how-to use the it....
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Create a command/feature to execute KCPRLIM in all CICS regions (or CICS AORs) at same time.

Customer has 463 CICS and sometimes they need to change RESOURCE LIMIT (RLIM) related to some transactions. So, it is necessary to execute the KCPRLIM 463 times to change these resources for each transaction. If a new command/feature is created to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Support for 27 x 132 screen size in Workload Scheduler

Alternative idea for this idea (Rearrange ACTUAL START field from panel EQQSOP2L to panel EQQSOP1L [ZWS-I-266]), to have fields from EQQSOP1L and EQQSOP2L on one screen when using 27x132 screen size.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T dls xxxxxxxx.** dls will only list all VSAM datasets using the -t option, but the dls man page does not...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

CPC Operations query - CBU records

It order to reduce the access to the HMC-SE, could be useful to have more information in panel 3 --> 1 --> R near related CPC (VPCPCOPR) of GDSPS like to show for each RecID the expiration date and time.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Increase the size of the Escalation Database to allow for more events to be stored.

The Escalation database has a maximum limit of records it can hold. (2200 events maximum). One the limit is reached, there is a warning messaged logged indicating the maximum number of events was exceeded. This message is written at program startu...
23 days ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Submitted

document recomandation on linux lpar spec to host 10s, 50s, 100s of ZVDT instances

I'm looking for recomandations for how many LPARs, how much memory, how many IFLs, what linux kernel parameters needs to be adjusted to run dozen ZVDT instances 50+ ZVDT instances 100-500 ZVDT instances
23 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Submitted

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