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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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    Utilize BCPii for z/OS Consoles after LOAD or STOP - HMA Operating System Messages

    GDPS Communicates with the LPARs on the HMA Support Element via BCPii. This is how it is able to Activate, Deactivate, Load, Reset & Shutdown the LPARs from GDPS. Add the HMA Support Element Operating System Messages option (Call it CONSOLE) t...
    about 1 month ago in GDPS 3 Under review

    Enable zEDC compression support in the SMF Extractor of ZPCA

    It would be usefull an enhancement for Z Performance and Capacity Analytics (ZPCA) to support native zEDC compression within the SMF Extractor, similar to the compression available when SMF compress records before writting to the logstream (SMFPRM...
    7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

    Control the formatting of the exported PDF

    When IM Reports are EXPORTED as a PDF, an option should be made available to the user to remove all the associated technical descriptive text and/or the imbedded hyperlinks. The "technical descriptive text" is exactly that - it contains a lot of t...
    about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

    Allow selective EXPORT of reports from a Dashboard

    Currently there is no ability in a Dashboard to select reports(s) that are to be EXPORTed. It is either an all or nothing approach. I have built a dashboard that has 28 reports and would like to only 4 of these reports via a Scheduled Export to ou...
    about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

    Allow the user to customize attribute collection, keeping the current minimum set as "mandatory" and additional metrics as optional. In this way, the client will be responsible for granularizing the collection of metadata from the environment, as well as the balance between the desired level of detail versus the overhead caused.

    We recently conducted a PoC for this client, which uses a competitor's solution (Dynatrace) in a small portion of its environment. Unfortunately, we were disqualified for failing to meet the following requirements: The CICS transaction informati...
    2 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

    ESAF-Connection-Pooling in DSNMIN20 should be configurable

    The current implementation of DSNMIN20 includes a fixed table with 50 table spaces for pooling ESAF connections. This fixed size is very rigid and inflexible.It would be much more flexible if the upper limit for the connections were configurable. ...
    3 months ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Under review

    Actions zoom menu for Queue/Channel

    Add zoom menu to Queue/Channel details to popup take actions menu and able to administer Queue/Channel in case you were redirected straight to details panel.
    7 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Under review

    Show "Wait No Message" counters

    Make visible for 3270 users "Wait No Message" counters attributes. Add it for existing dashboards. Destructive Get Wait Retry Count and Browse Get Wait No Message Count from QMQ_ST_SMF table.
    7 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Under review

    Forward/Move all messages in queue

    Add option for take action menu for queues to move or forward all messages in queue. Similar to purge that we have.
    7 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Under review

    Storage occupancy as Average storage for history

    The customer spoke about Storage occupancy for a task as a large number, but this is a function of the time as well as storage used. For history, this might be better represented as an Average storage used. This is not possible for an active task.
    7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

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