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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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Override sessions with Initial Status = F for CLS/DEST Pass Sessions

Users take advantage of the Initial status parameter for sessions they wish to have started automatically by specifying F. When a user does this with a session designated as Multi, they are able to get back to the Supersession menu by hitting ATT...
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

enable e3270 users to close situations

Hi,The TEP client of Omegamon (all Omegamons) has the capability to close pure event based situations. The TEP client is getting harder and harder for customers to be able to run. This is because browser based java support is eroding and java webs...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support additional Content-Types as textual in WEB CONVERSE

When WEB CONVERSE receives a response and places it in a container, it uses the Content-Type header to determine whether to create a BIT or CHAR container for the response. e.g. Well-known Content-Types such as 'application/json' result in a CHAR ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

create a component ZBNA "like" for IZPCA

The extraction of SMF, executiong of CP3K, generation and download off DAT and EDF and import in zBNA is quite annoying and takes time. If you think the input is the same SMF data that we already collect in IZPCA/IZDS family, is quite possible to ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

The explorer tool to display resource attribute as per defination.

The explorer tool should display resource attribute as per defination for consistency. e.g. avoid -1 to represent NO and so on.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Kerberos support for IWSz Reporting (DBOPT)

Currently IWSz requires user ID and password in DBOPT to enable Database connection to DB2 reporting database. We need to eliminate the use of password in DBOPT. Provide Kerberos support to DBOPT for IWSz historical reporting.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add capabilities to support JES3

There are several larger customers with JES3.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Not under consideration

User-EQAOPTS should not be able to override systemwide GPFDSN

Settings made by the system programmer in GPFDSN should not be changeable by single users.A possible solution would be to enhance GPFDSN command by 'override' or 'nooverride'Example:EQAXOPT GPFDSN,'GROUP1.COMMON.DTOOL.PREFS',NOOVERRIDE
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

TWS : Add group definition in Layout fields list

Layout definition : Extend the selection to fields not belonging to the CP3P record but only to CP3C, such ad the Group Definition.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

zLDA user log from JES Spool does not work when batch jobs are offloaded from JES to an archival product like "SAR".

Large MF (Enterprise) shops like CITI immediately offload batch for archival -- without this support the "user logs" from Spool to Splunk is not working for us. Our developers will not add VSAM ESDS files to batch jobs -- they will move forward a...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 3 Not under consideration