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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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Add Dataclass parm to WCONFIG (PARMGEN and Config Manager)

Helpful for Omegamon output file allocation and management
almost 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Start AD usage analysis from IDz editors

Currently, a developer has to copy the variable or section name and change the perspective (Application Discovery Browser) in order to then select all AD projects. Then the copied name must be pasted and the analysis "Use in program" started.

Code review in batch for a pipeline so slow that it can't be used

I've set up and been configuring AKGCR, Code Review, in batch to be used in our cobol pipeline.On zos we are using idz 14.2.1 and on the client we are using 14.2.1.1When I submit my jcl it takes a couple of minutes to complete, even though it is a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

New PyCSM and pyds8k packages to support IBM disk migrations

IBM Disk management team is making use of Python for disk migrations and we need additional Python packages installed to downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net We were asked by IBM to get the following for the disk management tools: PyCSM https://pypi.org/...
12 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for multiple Vertical Name-Value Pair metrics collection in Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC)

Currently RTMC supports a single Vertical NVP collection based on the ECB Owner High field where the performance metrics of an ECB can be subdivided based on each time the Vertical NVP (ECB Owner High) changes. If ECB Owner High is changed as an E...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Increase NVP block size

We anticipate sending 40-100 NVPs including NVP metrics. As such, we are concerned that the maximum size of the name value pair area of 4k may be too small at this time.
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Future consideration

RTMC NVP metric support

Today, name-value pairs can be horizontal or vertical annotations of the message being processed. We need to be able to send customer defined metrics as part of the name-value pair data as metrics that behave as data columns instead of the as anno...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

USER DASD consists of multiple SMS Storage Groups but when you drill down, it's showing volumes of those SMS Storage Groups... Would like to show SMS Storage groups before going to the individual volumes.

When you define USER DASD groups (e.g. DATABASES), you can add that USER group by defining specific (or multiple SMS Storage Groups) that would make up that USER DASD group. Drilling down into the USER DASD group, it then shows the individual volu...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Display the dataset where the JCL/Script is acquired.

We currently have multiple source JCL/Script datasets that are linked to WAz. Scheduling is asked to refresh the copy of a JCL/Script in the CP so that it is brought in from a different dataset than normal.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Wildcard in ADDTRAN TRANGRP

The ability to ADDTRAN generic TRANID to a CICSPLEX/SM TRANGRP rather than coding more individual TRANID.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration