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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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EQQUSIN expand job number field and add duration in 100th*sec

Actually the EQQUSIN has a duration limit of 99 hours 59 minutes. We have external jobs with longer durations and need the exact duration in tools like Xinfo. As described in the documentation, the ACT_DUR field has a CHAR size of 4. Updating oper...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

How to estimate the size of these pools in a mACB environment where there's no ACBLIB, DBDLIB nor PSBLIB.

Problem Description: In an ACBLIB environment, ACBGEN output shows the estimated size of DMB, PSB, PSBW, and EPCB pools indicated by DFS0940I, DFS0941I, DFS0943I and DFS0589I. messages like as follows. < ACBGEN output example > ... DFS0940I ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Planned for future release

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

Add an 80% warning message before zWS reaches 100% limit for adding applications of the same name. (EQQM952E & EQQM952I)

To add a 80% alert before an application reaches its limit of 1440 entries to be added. EQQM952E FAILED TO ADD APPLICATION XXXXXXEQQM952I REASON: NO UNIQUE INPUT ARRIVAL TIME LEFT IN CP FOR THIS APPLICATION This will give Scheduling team time to r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Take keys from IBM Cloud under management in EKMF Workstation

want only one central key management system across enterprise and this covers also cloud environment
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Planned for future release

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

Bring SQL-Compiler-Suboptions into LoadModule, especially ATTACH(TSO/CAF/ULI)

We try to find out whit compiler options are used for some programs on load library. When using the FM-LoadModule-Analyzer, we can list the compiler options of the load modules. If the program uses SQL, we see "SQL" as COBOL-option, but not the us...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Make IZPCA RMM and SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex

Make IZPCA RMMand SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Query and Set the Fence status of Db2 IMS and VSAM for GDPS CA workload

This is will be a useful command to query the fence status of the databases, before the switch process, Also ability to set fence / unfence the databases to put it back in a right state so the next workload switch will work without failure
about 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Planned for future release

Need ability to migrate to new DASD under GDPS in MGM environment

Need ability to migrate to new hardware while keeping existing MGM DR and availability positions intact.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 11 Planned for future release