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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 pyzfile to the supported packages

Pyzfile (pronounced pie-zee-file) is a Python package for performing I/O on native MVS record oriented data sets. All access methods are supported including QSAM, BSAM, VSAM (KSDS, ESDS, RRDS) and hiperspaces. This library is a wrapper over the z/...
4 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Please add Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to IZPCA Tables

We have multiple time zone LPARs. We would like to be able to work with a common time (UTC) so that data from LPARs with different time zones can be aligned correctly.
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Show list of changed resources before INGAMS REFRESH

When a new ACF is loaded it is not visible which changes will be activated when this ACF is refreshed. Especially on a production system this is an unwanted situation.Therefor we've made our own rexx. This rexx will check the timestamp in the new ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

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

Certify ooRexx version 5.0 for use with TOS.

Version 4.2 has long standing reliability issues. Version 5.0 is newer and will offer better perfomance to TOS customers.
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

Add the LSPR workload type to the CP CEC Usage Analysis report - Report number CPCPU01

Currently in the CP CEC Usage Analysis report - Report number CPCPU01 we notice that the CEC MIPS rating changes/fluctuates e.g. 3931-710 has 18788 MIPS according to the IBM LSPR table. However during certain intervals, we notice the MIPS drop to ...
3 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

JDK LCM for IBM Installation Manager and Package Utility

Installation Manager and Package Utility is considered a threat for our mission critical applications by our security department, because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 8. This version is considered out of date and does not receive t...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under 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

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...
8 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 ...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

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