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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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Post provisioning script for individual images

Allow to run custom code after zdnt is provisioned.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

RBAC for ZD&T instances

Add role based access to zdnt instances
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Reduce the about of CPU/MIPS used during zRTEMS startup

In environments with large numbers of nodes (8000+), when a z/OS RTEMS is started the RTEMS is measure to use 300-500 MIPS while establishing a HTEMS connection. During an IPL this is not an issue thanks to IPL BOOST, but when the zRTEMS needs res...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Repair Utility of ONDV file on CICS Transaction history

OMEGAMON CICS is able to store CICS Transaction History in file. For example,<ONLINE_VIEWER> DATA_STORE_TYPE=FILEOCMP DATA_STORE_FILE_NAME=OMEGA.V551.*.RKC2HIST It is working fine while it is running on Product Data center. But, when Disaste...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

add a warning in the case that jvollist finds the LOADPARM volume is empty

Provisioning of image with empty LOADPARM fails. Warn user ahead of provisioning
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

User Customizable ATTN key handling

Default handling of the ATTN key requires two presses of the key to pass ATTN through to the application. We would like this to be an option, possibly in the global profile, to be able to set the default action to allow the first press of ATTN to ...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions

We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That gives us a new requirement for protection of our user scripts.User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.
over 3 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

AUTHDEF TRACE ( SAF trace ) needs to be started/stop via command instead of restarting the controller task

Currently to trace security issues in Z workload scheduler it is necessary to alter the controller parms to have TRACE(8) in AUTHDEF, cycle the controller, collect the EQQMLOG, then set TRACE(0) again and cycle the controller again. This makes it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Protect TWS Subresources for ETT, JV, RD and SR with authority group id

Implement the field authority group id for TWS objects ETT, RD, JV and SR and protect the access to the objects via new RACF subresources(the same way as applications with subresource AD.GROUP)
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Kerberos sign on does not work in Personal Communications and Host on Demand

Currently, the current design of PCOMM and HOD doesn't support FQDN with alias host. This entry is opened fro Dev/L3 team to explore and check what API are available in C++ to support the alias hostname to resolve FQDN.
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release