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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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Support "EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" in Unit testing

"EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" is a common syntax using in CICS, without the support we have a large portion of application team cannot adopt ZUnit.
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Only able to record testcases from a single loadmodule

We are having the same program linked into multiple loadmodules. We would like to record testcases from all loadmodules, but after the first recording, the record dialogue has the Program name locked. And according to instrcuctions, the "Program n...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Search in the Test Case Editor

We are about to use zUnit for our existing payroll sources. But our sources have a large, automatic generated Linkage section with a lot of variables.We have the need to identify single variables to check their content (after recording) or to set ...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 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

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

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

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

Using CICS Policies to check if terminal connections have been acquired

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 check for Terminal Connection Acquired to CICS and so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Polici...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 access token caching and life time JWT token management

We propose to be able to modify the behavior of z/OS Connect (OpenAPI 2) when tokens are close to expiration. In particular, we would need to be able to parametrize the residual time for which z/OS Connect requests a new token from the JWT Server ...
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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

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