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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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Add LIKE capability to dtouch

Add a new optional parameter to dtouch shell command (and corresponding Python API) called --like (or maybe --model) which takes the name of an existing dataset. This argument would override (and could be specified completely in lieu of) other all...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Please Add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support to z/OSMF Connection(s) in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3

After migrating to MFA at our organization, our z/OSMF connections in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3 became obsolete due to lack of support for MFA. In the interest of security and standardization, please consider adding MFA support to z/OSMF. Tha...
3 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 1 Not under 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

APPMON should work for Natural RPC Server when zIIP feature is activated

Application Monitoring (APPMON) doesn't show NATRPC requests when using NATETBZ(zIIP eligible). We tested, Brokerstub NATETB23(not zIIP eligible) instead of NATETBZ(zIIP eligible) and surprise APPMON shows NATRPC requests. For having a proper appl...
24 days ago in EntireX 0 Submitted

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP command in the INGLIST panel at a group level

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP (INGREQ)command in the INGLIST panel at a group level as the SUSPEND ( INGSUSPD ) command does. It makes no sense to be able to see all the dependency tree for the SUSPEND comma...
24 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Create INODE version upgrade tool.

Currently for z/TPF TFS INODEs there is no available functionality to upgrade an INODE to the most current INODE version. In some systems, directories/files have been present since the initialization of the TPF TFS and are still at INODE version ‘...
24 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Python to support further encoding: tags beside 1047 and ISO8859-1

Currently, IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python seems to only support encoding 1047 and ISO8859-1. If we've coded: # encoding: cp1141 neither output nor error messages are shown for e.g. printed output. A simple print("Hello World") would be enough ...
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 5 Not under consideration

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

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

Simplify the process of extracting volumes in MGM copy.

Good Morning, In environments where GEOPARM is complex, managing extraction of multiple volumes of the MGM copy is complex. The process is very manual (you have to go through GDPS panels to RESUME the disks, then FW the FCs, then delete the GM/GC ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

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