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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 support for Passticket validation for Supersession VTAM Generic Resource

When we attempt to use IBM PCOM ELF to logon to our Supersession VTAM Generic Resource we get error message ‘KLKNA 103 CREDENTIAL NOT AUTHORIZED’. The issue has been documented in IBM case TS017250392. IBM has stated that the reason that the above...
about 1 month ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

IBM Z Open Automation Utilities should eliminate dependencies on SSVIVERS returned by SSI 54.

SSVIVERS has been a highly-volatile field over the years for both JESes. Historically, these values have been: JES2 Value JES3 Value OS Release'SP v.r.m' 'SP v.r.m' MVS/SP'OS v.r.m' 'OS v.r.m' OS/390 V1.1 through V2.9'OS 2.10 ' 'OS 2.10 ' OS/390 V...
almost 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under consideration

new members HBORSxxx et HBOUSxxx for DFSMS-HSM FSR records

Hi, It would be useful to have this SMF record streamed by CDP : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=areas-fsrfunction-statistics-record That would give a LOG of what's happening in DFHSM. Regards Régis
3 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

GDPS ability to have multiple flash copies in MGM 3-site

In a 3 site MGM environment , with virtual LCP copy & a testcopy, we are limited to only 1 testcopy flashcopy target. We have a requirement to take Flashcopies once a week along with having RC1 flashcopy taken daily. Currently, there is ...
9 months ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

Incrementally restore a subset of SGC volumes

PH44217 introduced incremental restore capability to Production but is currently an "all or none" approach. We believe there may be scenarios where specific volumes or applications might be affected by corruption and so we would like to have a sim...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 15 Future consideration

Dual control function for Policy mgmt

In GDPS you can make changes to your policies in option 1 Dasd Remote Copy > 2 Policy Mgmt. With the new GDPSADMIN.DASDCTL profiles the protection possibilities have increased, but having this changed under dual control would be a good improvem...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Dual control function for DASD Config

Within the DS8K there is protection in place that a (malicious) person is not able to delete/alter devices that are part of safeguarded copies. We have a cybervault LCP setup to ensure we have immutable backups of our systems, and activated Dual C...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

FTDC for GDPS/LCP SGC Capture failures - ODDs to disk

GDPS/PPRC has not been reliably taking ODDs in all GDPS/LCP SGC capture failures that we've seen. As a result, IBM DASD microcode has not been able to determine why several of our SGC captures have failed. This idea is to enhance GDPS/LCP first ti...
3 months ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Enable ZOAU to support PDSE Member Generations

Please enable all ZOAU PDS processing to support PDSE Member Generations. Member Generations have been available since PDSE Version 2 was released over a decade ago and more sites are starting to take advantage of them. Using ZOAU should work and ...
5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Using CICS policies to replace RTA functionality (Monitoring TDQ Count)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not currently check TDQ Count, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do check for similar ...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

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