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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 dynamic activation of CDP logging function after it was disabled

Dear developers, We enabled CDPz data collection function integrated within IWSz to have EQQ8006I (indicating the status change of jobs scheduled in current plan) message to feed our home grown web tool. But we met an issue - While the owning syst...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Additional validation of input arrival date in 5.1 panel

When adding an application in 5.1 at 23:59 and confirming it at 0:01 the input arrival date will be the one set at 23:59. It is causing that variables like '%OYMD' inside jobs will be provided by the date from the previous day. Additionally, when ...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

GDPS 4.1 Missing FlashCopy Devices Information

The information from VPCPFCSO panel does not provide the device number of the tertiary copy which is what we are interested in. Under GDPS 3.14, we can obtain the tertiary DASD info from GDPS under FCQueryS from VPCPQSH1 panel under DASD REMOTE COPY.
over 5 years ago in GDPS 15 Future consideration

Include CPU consumed by API in interceptors

Customer needs to determine APIs with high CPU to target for tuning. The customer uses OMEGAMON for JVM for API monitoring and they would like CPU per API included in detail reports.
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

It should be possible to specify another RUNAWAY(ICVR) value for when task is running on open TCBs(L8/L9/T8?).

It should be possible to have one ICVR value for when task is running on the QR TCB and other non-open TCBs, and anther value for when task is running on open TCBs(L8/L9/T8?) This would enable us to allow larger ICVR values for tasks running on op...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Request that CICS added transaction tracking /origin data for web services routed by CICS RZ domain request streams processin

The explanation is that a new point of origin is created in the AOR when a web service pipeline handler transaction is routed over an MRO connection. as shown in this link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6?topic=data-origin-characteristics...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Suppress specific log messages in Liberty

With JVM server profile option "LOG_LEVEL", I can control the level of messages, that will be written to Liberty "messages.log" and dfhjvmlog. For example "LOG_LEVEL=WARNING" supresses all Info-messages. We want to suppress only specific messages,...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add OpenSSL port for z/OS to Open Enterprise Foundation

We used to have through the IBM ported tools which are no longer available. Afterwards it was included in the IDz product, the FMID included a target path with Rocket tools. But since some PTFs ago OpenSSL is no longer included. Currently there is...
8 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Future consideration

MGM resiliency in recovery region

With MzGM 4-SITE we had resiliency in our recovery region for disk. For example, if C disk (XRC secondaries) died, GDPS/Metro in that region could Hyperswap to D disk and XRC would remain up, capable both of building DR and of doing our daily requ...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Respect the dbb-userbuild settings in zapp files also in IDz.

Our users consider it cumbersome to manually click themselves through the whole USS folder structure when configuring the DBB userbuild. With VSCode and z open editor one can configure the user build using a special section of the zapp file (https...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

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