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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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Provide the possibility of having a consistent copy in Region A when we are in a Region Switch situation (Production in REGion B) in the GDPS MGM3SITE solution.

It is very dangerous to propose a Region Switch in MGM3SITE, since in that situation we will not have a consistent copy in Region A (copy between Region b and A in Global Copy format). In this situation if we have a problem in Region B, the data i...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

Display what Transaction Group the Transaction Already exists when adding it to a different group.

When adding a transaction to a Workload Specification Group, that already exists. It displays the following: "Transactions cannot be in two Transactions Groups. Take from existing group(s)?" Is it possible for it to display what Workload Specifica...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Document changes even in security PTFs

When changes are made under the scope of a security PTF, that change is not documented, and this may cause problems for the clients (example: when userid or password is wrong, the message that is issued has changed with a security PTF, and as the ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Checking connections between GDPS K-systems defined in GEOGROUP by GDPS Monitor I

GDPS has the ability that work in conjunction with Kp-systems, Kg-system, and Kr-system, such as the MGM3SITE and MGM4SITE procedures. To run the procedure, it is mandatory to establish connections between K-systems defined in GEOGROUP. But curren...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Using CICS policies to replace RTA functionality (Monitoring TDQ Count)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not currently check TDQ Count, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do check for similar ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

Using CICS Policies to check if terminal connections have been acquired

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for Terminal Connection Acquired to CICS and so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Polici...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 access token caching and life time JWT token management

We propose to be able to modify the behavior of z/OS Connect (OpenAPI 2) when tokens are close to expiration. In particular, we would need to be able to parametrize the residual time for which z/OS Connect requests a new token from the JWT Server ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

GDPS Standard Options 3 doesn't show enough information

It would be useful to have more information in panel 3 of Gdps 'standard options' to show the size of Memory of all lpars including CF. We now use GDPS to activate/load lpars and we need to check if a new memory profile updated has been taken into...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Add DWC userid (in addition to RACF userid) to EQQPH72I message

Currently the EQQPH72I message, displayed in the mainframe server task which communicates with the zconnector to get to a DWC, contains only the RACFUSER value from the USERMAP table. There may be multiple DWC userids which have the same RACFUSER ...
21 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration