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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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New configuration setting for the IDz GUI "z/OS UNIX Files" to restrict the recursive deletion of directories

With the IDz GUI “z/OS UNIX Files” it is easy to start a recursive deletion of Unix directories. IDz will give you a warning before. If you confirm the whole tree will be deleted. In native Unix System Services it is possible to use an alias for t...
4 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Be able to use ZIIP feature with Log Data Manager.

IZPCA Log Data Manager feature is an ISPF/TSO application which needs to be coded in a special way in order to allow the caller environment to use Ziip processors. To avoid this inconvenience BATCH environment calling DRLPLC should be used instead...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhance IBM JZOS API to throw an exception when a Java application tries to read a corrupted VSAM dataset

As part of an application conversion from Assembler to Java, we've found an issue related to error handling where the JZOS API does not handle well. In our case it is related to accessing a corrupt VSAM file, and we've seen the same outcome when r...
about 1 month ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Submitted

GDPS should recover from secondary dynamic pathing problem

After problems on the secondary Metro Mirror devices due to maintenance on channel paths, following messages occurred: IOS210I PATH RECOVERY INITIATED FOR PATH xx on CU yyyy REAS PATHING ERROR and IOSHS0010I DYNAMIC PATHING IS NOT INITIALIZED FOR ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

Allow specification of region type in IMS command - UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH)

Currently when we promote programs we stop and start all our message regions. Doing a UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH) returns a return code of 8 due to - CC 48 NOT ALLOWED FOR IMS RESOURCE. This means we would not be able to setup alerting on th...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Full support of SMF102 data

CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Need the ability to execute multiple GDPS scripts at the same time for parallelism

Mastercard is trying to reduce their RTO during standard IPLs, DR Tests and Region switches. With the restriction of only being able to execute one GDPS script at a time it’s hindering our RTO. If they had the ability of running multiple scripts a...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 16 Not under consideration

Additional time options for Not Started Alert/Action at operation level

Not Started Alert feature at job level, allows to define a specific day and time to request an Alert or an Action for those operations that didn’t start within that time. This feature could be improved adding the possibility to select as time opti...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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