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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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Create a solution on IZPCA to support multiple customers with the same MVS_SYSTEM_ID

This idea will be a great improvement in the architecture of IZPCA to be able the new scenario of zCloud. Kyndryl is supporting customer in zCloud and the IZPCA must be installed to support all these customers in a shared DB in zCloud. To support ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

WAPL | Permit partial values for FILTER segment/record comperators

The segment operators in the FILTER function do not permit the usage of partial values. The usage of partial values with common wildcard charactes like in the List/Select-Statement would be helpful and creats a greate user experience while using W...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

SMF92-subtype 51 to 59 in zCDP

We're currently working on zFS statistics to tune the performance, looking at HBORS092 member in CDP SHBODEFS, it looks like the SMF92 subtype 5x are missing (51 to 59). Could you please update zCDP and create some nice datastreams to monitor zFS ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Allow multiple selections for DSORG selection keyword

Enhance the DSORG selection keyword to allow for multiple selections to enable OR processing for an INCLUDE statement. Only allowing a single selection requires multipe duplicate INCLUDE statements which complicates the rule definitions and subseq...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Under review

Selecting some charts (e.g. Page Frames) is useful to do per CEC. Currently, a manual filter needs to be set. We should add the CEC name to the appropriate tables, even though it may not be in the specific SMF record.

Some charts make more sense when viewed at a CEC level. Real storage is an example. Currently, the customer needs to ensure that they manually set a filter to limit the reporting to a specific CEC. We should simply support the CEC name as an addit...
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

When adding multiple metrics to a chart, we always go back to the top of the list. We should reshow the list after the last metric that was added (they are shown alphabetically).

This is slightly annoying to have to page down again (sometimes many pages) to get back to where you just were. We should reshow the list after the last metric that was added (they are shown alphabetically).
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide CLANG scan-build tool on AIX for Open XL C 17.1+

Provide the scan-build tool to front-end CLANG static analysis. This would greatly aide in migrating codebases from older versions of XL C to the new compilers. All compiler users on AIX would benefit.
about 1 month ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / AIX 1 Under review

Optional parameter to avoid STATUS V1 for DEDB REPL

In IMS V6 APAR, the meaning of MINBYTES in the DBDGEN SEGM macro for DEDB has been changed, so that an unexpected status code "V1" may be returned to REPL CALL for DEDB in IMS V6 and later. In order to avoid this problem, IMS development provides ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Future consideration

Limit the region type for IRLM lock timeout function

In Japan, most banking customers use an application framework called SAIL, an asset of IBM Japan Consulting, running in their production core banking systems. In the SAIL system, the SAIL control regions run as MPP and the application regions run ...
about 1 year ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

TACM should use zIIP engines during ie EXPLORE function

Heavy EXPLORE(reporting functions) running through all catalogs have a high GP cost. In examples we face turnaround times of 100 minutes with a GP cost of 12 minutes. Here an explore sample that gives above numbers: EXPLORE - DSN-LISTFILE(OUT) - C...
6 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 3 Future consideration