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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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GDPS provisions SAF controls for accessing Netview when Netview already has a SAF resource to perform this. This means there are now two resources protecting the same function

With the implementation of GDPS 4.7 and the steps outlined in Role based security, GDPS folks have provided the following profile GDPSADMIN.USERCTL.<domain_id>. This means that when role based security is enabled and GDPS 4.7 is initialized ...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Provide ENQ / DEQ services

We are migrating Rexx code to Python, some of our Rexx code calls a Module that issues ENQ / DEQ to serialize some processing against other ZOS processes running. We would like to issue an ENQ/DEQ from Python through a ZOAU function.
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Adding X-command (Export and Import) to each database element (analog to applications 1.4.3)

In an enterprise environment, the process of importing and exporting artifacts from the database, such as ETTs, Periods, Runcycle Groups, JCL Variable Tables, and more, is a necessary task. Currently, the X-command in panel EQQALSTL serves as an e...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Launch “User Build” for more than one cobol program at a time.

It would be very useful to be able to run the “DBB” for more than one program at a time. That is, select two or more cobol programs, right click and launch a dependency based build for these two selected programs. I understand the problem with the...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

Automatic increase virtual capacity for volume Safe Guarded Copy

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume. The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However,...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

Possibility of logging in and logging out of a session, by calling an external API

In order to track users connecting and disconnecting in an applinx server farm, we want to update an external table by calling an API service. Instead of going through all the farm servers and checking if a session exists or not.
about 1 month ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

We are asking for an enhancement to FM for IMS to have the capability of add/update a template, for an IMS managed ACB system running in an IMS data sharing environment, on any IMS within the data sharing environment.

The capability to add/update a template for an IMS managed ACB system, on a system where the IMS region isn't running, isn't in the current design of File Manager. We would like to see the enhancement of the product, to run/update a template on an...
about 1 month ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Support for 27 x 132 screen size in Workload Scheduler

Alternative idea for this idea (Rearrange ACTUAL START field from panel EQQSOP2L to panel EQQSOP1L [ZWS-I-266]), to have fields from EQQSOP1L and EQQSOP2L on one screen when using 27x132 screen size.
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Setting IPLType on KG-Syestem versus setting on the (LCP) R-system should be same

In an LCP setup it is possible to set the IPLTYPE both on the KG-System as on the (LCP) R-System. When setting it on the KG-System it is also propagated to the R-system. The other way around this is not the case. So when setting the IPLTYPE on the...
9 months ago in GDPS 5 Future consideration

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition of information related to IFCID 369 and load them in a new D_KPM_DB2_% table

Integration in the SMF_100_1_X record definition (Record DB2 with deltas calculation via DRLSD64D program) of information related to IFCID 369 (Aggregated Accounting Statistics). This will let us get accounting information aggregated from the SMF ...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration