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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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Please add the support of data feeds from IIDR (IBM InfoSphere DATA REPLICATION) SMF records to the product.

The product is important to our company's application support community, and users have been asking for these feeds to ZLDA so SPLUNK Dashboards could be built to monitor workloads, performance, and trends. We currently have these records assigned...
9 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Complete control over the Topic name that IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics use to connect to Kafka

To day do CDP use a constant (-) in the Topic when connecting to Kafka. If this constant do not match your organisations naming standard is there nothing in CDP to solve that problem. An option to remove the constant is needed to have more control...
9 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support TLS for connections to configuration server (HOMSRV)

Due to DoD/DISA STIG requirements for all connections to be secured via TLS we need the ability to enable TLS for the configuration server (HOMSRV) port 8999. This would allow the credentials used to retrieve or modify the configurations to be kep...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

Make IZPCA RMM and SMS reports accurate across a Sysplex

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

Accurately normalize CPUsec reporting in the RAF component

CPUsec reporting in the Resource Accounting Feature does not differentiate between GCP and zIIP processors. For customers that run zIIP processors in their environment, RAF records CPUsec equally, regardless of processor type, and RAF only applies...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

IBM z Omegamon for Storage missing capabilities

Poste Italiane, the official Postal Office in Italy, but also a Bank, an Insurance company, and a Telephone provider, is missing the following capabilities for the mentioned software in the subject: Information on catalogs is missing: several exte...
10 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Monitor Transactions Originating on z/OS for MQ.

We have been discussing Instana MQ Integration with several Mainframe Clients. MQ is a very broad solution and we are finding that some of our clients have these transactions originating on the Mainframe, but the transaction actually occurred with...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

Align all Mainframe Log data from zLDA to SPLUNK with respect to displaying/using consistent timezones from CICS, Netview, Websphere and SYSLOG to all use the same timezones.

This enhancement is not only "useful" but necessary. The amount of time we spend in supporting the product due to "inconsistent" and confusing timezones depending on which type of Mainframe log we are viewing is onerous. It's basically impossible ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 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
over 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Planned for future release

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

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