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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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Support for LOGRY and LOGRZ Couple datasets in the INGPLEX CDS command

With z/OS 2.4, the support for LOGRY and LOGRZ policies was made available for GDPS configuration. Currently, with System Automation 4.2 and 4.3, the INGPLEX CDS command does not support these new CDS policies. When in the INGKX300 (INGPLEX CDS), ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Delivered

New Policy to cancel tasks that use very large containers

It would be good if a policy could detect (and possibly purge) the tasks that use larger containers of a specified size as it is possible to do with those that occupy more than xGb of User or Shared GDSA
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Add support for debugging with LangX in Cobol 6

A Cobol program compiled with the Cobol 4 compiler using the option NOTEST can be debugged using the LangX genedated from the listings. It would be very useful to enable this feature for Cobol 6 programs too.
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Select which teps are used with custom dashboards

It is currently possible to define up to 6 teps in SMU. Unfortunately, you cannot select components for every server. The custom dashboards that you create automatically only retrieve the data where components have been selected. "Default TEPS" It...
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Delivered

Integration of informations about the Boost Class, Speed & zIIP Boost in table KPMZ_LPAR_T

Integrate three columns in tables KPMZ_LPAR_T from SMF70FLA to specify the Boost Class and if Speed or zIIP Boost is active during the current interval : BOOST_CLASS ==> IPL / SHUTDOWN / RECOVERY (From SMF70FLA Bits 13 - 15) 001: IPL 010: Shutd...
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Delivered

Provide ability to 'smartly' purge transactions performing 'must complete' activity

Customer has a large environment with many thousands of DB2 transactions per minute, and relies upon vendor monitoring software to effectively handle the purging of transactions that exceed criteria (TMON in this case, but this would apply to Omeg...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

View Problems (vue Erreurs) option Advanced Show All pour afficher tous les avertissements/erreurs du Référentiel

La vue Problems avec l’option « Show all » affiche les avertissements/erreurs détectées dans le Référentiel sans que l’administrateur ait besoin d’ouvrir un Cobol PDP quelconque, il s’agit des types :“Desynchronized_Generated_File_Marker”, “PDP Er...
over 2 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Enable SAF_Keyring Support for TCPOPTS

The HTTPOPTS statement of TWSz controller allows you to specify a SAF-Keyring for using SSL-Connection. But this only enables secure communication via SAF-Keyrings for Controller-Controller connection.We also want to secure the TCP/IP communicatio...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

Edit Popup in Debug perspective

In the popup window doing mouse hover on a variable i need to edit, copy , paste the value
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

File Manager option to Import File in Plug-in RDz

in the file manager plugin for RDz i have the option export to desktop and i need option to import from desktop
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered