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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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Comparison operator in Resource override file

Hi, The resource override yaml file has options to give the filters such as "is" "is not". It would be helpful to have options like "greater than", "less than", "greater than equal", "less than equal". These are helpful to filter resources. Ex: Se...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Balancing workloads for machines with a different physical capabilities

In our situation, we have two production LPARs, each one is on a different MF. Each TOR dynamically routes all transactions to all AORs (on both LPARs) We would really like to be able to control the workload distribution between the LPARs. Since t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

INGGROUP should have a parm to prevent entire group outages

The inggroup now accepts RECYCLE to perform a psuedo rolling recycle of the group. You can specify CHUNK to indicate how many members of that group should be processed in parallel. The one thing it does not do is ensure that the previous resource ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Include the Liberty dispatch time within z/OS Connect SMF and monitor data (e.g. Omeagamon for JVM and OEM vendors just as Dynatrace)

Without the Liberty Dispatch time we have had instances of large amounts of time in our API call chain being unaccounted for. We had a recent incident with IBM (TS010301362) to assist in identifying what appeared to be a random 5 second spike in r...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Cipher file name on com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile parm of Toggle file

Hi, Witht he CICS TS61, i see new toggle file parm com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile={true| false } This parm forces all the outbound calls to use the defaultciphers.xml. We already maintaining a custom cipher file for all inbouds as it is possib...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

PWFI to be kept in the program is the same

A PWFI region is waiting for a new message for the transaction ONE. Actually, when another transaction code (TWO) needs the region, ONE receive the Status code QC, all the environment is offloaded. The environment of TWO is load. If TWO is associa...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

ETL utility and JCL script to automate the DB2 data Loading process into IZTA

This will help the customer to load the DB2-UNLOADED data directly into shared dataspaces (VTS-TSR).
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Planned for future release

Display OMEGAMON Global Data Area startup options in the Enhanced 3270

CICS administrators logon to the Omegamon (classic) and use command GLOB GLOB to verify that each CICS regions is using the correct Global Data Area startup options. If the Enhanced 3270 was able to display the Global Data Area options, these admi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Allow typing during application is working

It happens that transactions inside the CICS-application may need more time to finish from time to time. The end user knows the normal response time and starts or continue typing as a moment where the transaction have not finished. In this case th...
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Possibility to show source program of ALIAS member

In our existing AD version (eg; 6.0.1.x) when cobol program has static assembler call, then search pattern is made towards the actual name of 'assembler program'. Suppose assembler program is not found, then it is considered as 'missing program'. ...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

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