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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 collection of SMF 42 subtype 15,16,17,18,19 for RLS performance.

Define a new table that will maintain SMF 42 subtype 15,16,17,18,19 for RLS performance.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Product name change.

This product name is too confusing. Clients are confusing it with Watsonx Code Assistant for z. Perhaps another name like Watsonx Concierge for z, Watsonx Curator for Z. I've seen marketing email that even confuses the two products, and refers to ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Monitoring CTG XA Limit

We want to know the current number of inflight XA transactions and total number of XA requests processed for XA transactions. The peak number of XA transactions inflight at the same time. For an alert to be issued when you reach an 80% of your max...
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS 0 Future consideration

Create a solution on IZPCA to support multiple customers with the same MVS_SYSTEM_ID

This idea will be a great improvement in the architecture of IZPCA to be able the new scenario of zCloud. Kyndryl is supporting customer in zCloud and the IZPCA must be installed to support all these customers in a shared DB in zCloud. To support ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Modify command to display parms of running controller

Modify command to display parms of running controller so you can see what is running because the parmlib might have been updated since last restart and doesn´t show the whole truth. Would be good for IBM Casing and to see yourself if neccessary.
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Need a step by step tutorial for Unit testing with local projects

The documentation has some samples but with remote datasets. It will be helpful to have a tutorial with local projects as there is no zUnit property groups and building the testcase is different.
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support 66 levels in Unit testing

66 levels are valid COBOL definitions for working storage and linkage areas, and prevents zUnit from generating test cases for programs containing these.
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for EXTERNAL data

zUnit should support data items declared as EXTERNAL. If a data item in COBOL is declared as EXTERNAL it can be used to pass data from a calling program to a subprogram, and therefore should be recorded as if it is a parameter. Also when calling a...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Validate playbackfile in DTR runtime

When pushing a zUnit testcase in a pipeline (and maybe other places) the playbackfile isn't validating with possible result a testcase is run forever (or until canceled). The functionality to validate the playback file is present in ZVTP and would...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

make userdefined extensions for unit testing thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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