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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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Adding ability of Key Mapping to Remote Connection Emulator

Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) is replacing Host Connection Emulator (HCE) from IDz 16 and onwards. In the old HCE we had the ability of mapping any key (or combination of keys) in the keyboard to any command. In the new RCE - key mapping is res...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

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

EXCI Policy Limiting Batch EXCI Pipes for same job

EXCI Policy, or other means, to Limit excessive Batch EXCI Pipes for same job. A single batch job could loop taking all the EXCI Pipes; would want a way to block one job, to prevent others from opening an EXCI Pipe. Limit would be configurable.
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Allow further defining of PROGRAMNAME in the Application/Business Group criteria specification.

Change the application/business group specification of PROGRAMNAME to be CICSPROGRAMNAME, DB2PROGRAMNAME, and ADDSPACEPROGRAMNAME
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add the Address Space "Work Type Indicator" as a classification rule for Application/Business Groupings

This would be useful, because it would give the user the ability to differentiate between batch jobs, started tasks, OMVS, and TSO address spaces.
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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

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