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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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Enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU6.2 to TCP/IP

Please enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU62 sessions to TCP/IP (for those cases where the following DTP Commands are used): EXEC CICS® ALLOCATE EXEC CICS CONNECT PROCESS EXEC CICS CONVERSE CONVID EXEC CICS CONVERSE SESSION EXEC CICS SEND SES...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Provide additoinal commands for Purge

How we can control the COMMITS in the PURGE statement of the DRLPLC utility. We need to set a low commit so we do not get logs filling up and eliminate “DSNI031I -DBP2 DSNILKES - LOCK ESCALATION HAS OCCURRED FOR” issues.? Need additional parameter...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

add INQUIRE SOAPFAULT to SPI

If a web services is invoking which throws a soap fault, the aoplication has to deal with the XML. It might be much easier, if the application will get the notification that there is a soap fault and gets the data with INQUIRE SOAPFAULT
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

GDPS CA UI filter for the workload components

When Displaying the workload components in the UI for the workload , Ability to filter only the lines with status active,
about 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Future consideration

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

Upgrade using AD plugin is not a good experience

Customer has issues with AD plugin upgrade as it has to be locally pushed to every desktop for users for the product. If a user accidentally updates the AD plugin and if other users are at a different level , then the project is corrupted. Custome...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

To allow one to Unload an IMS Database with the option of Deferring EPS/ILK Load when Migrating from FF to HALDB

It is useful because it reduces the time from days to minutes to unload FF Databases using MIGRATE or MIGRATX, literally. (If you get it work like BMC of course). In a recent exercise, one of the MIGRATE Unloads had been running for 4 days. We wou...
9 months ago in IMS Database Reorganization Expert for z/OS  / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Allow wildcards in SuperC batch member selection

Using SuperC Search-For from the ISPF panels allows members to be selected using '*' and '%' wildcards, i.e. like '*SP3%' as a membername. It would be very useful if the same format could be used in SELECT statements in the JCL SYSIN dataset
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 4 Future consideration

Properly resolve a user's TSO prefix

For the odd shops like ours where a TSO prefix is not the user's ID, this can cause a lot of ZOAU commands/python invocations to fail. ZOAU tries to allocate temporary work datasets under the user's "prefix", but it seems to just grab the user's I...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

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