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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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Unit testing to be available on VS Code

Currently zUnit is only available on IDz. Test cases can be executed out of IDz but, test cases and recordings can only be created within IDz. This causes a lock-in in IDz, so this prevents using other IDEs like VSC or CodeReady Workspaces. We nee...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support assertions 'lower than', 'greater than', 'different than', 'not null'

Currently zUnit only permits assertions ‘equal to’ in the testcases executions. We need zUnit to permit assertions of other types: ‘lower than’, ‘lower or equal than’, ‘greater than’, ‘greater or equal than’, 'different than' and 'not null'.This c...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CopyOnce: too much frequent

As written in the manual "ZG246758" the restore procedure after an HYPERSWAP (scheduled or unattended) foresees 3 actions:1- START secondary on Master of MM;2- MGM3SITE_RESTORE;3- MGM3SITE_SWAP The 9th step of MGM3SITE_RESTORE_MT_RS* procedure for...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Is a defect

Add MQ Version to OMEG MQ entry panel KMQSTRTI

We operate MQ subsystems in different versions To have an overview on which MQ version level a system is, we would like to see this in Panel KMQSTRTI - IBM MQ Queue Manager Status (displaycols, sortcols and filtercols). p.e. MQVERSION from table K...
5 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Future consideration

CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Add an option to use IBGENER to copy files using DCP

To use IBGENER to copy some files that is having problem using the regular DCP command, good example is the SYSDEBUG/SIDEFILE output from PLI or Cobol compiler to use with File Manager or Debugger.
6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

GDPS MGM Support for FC1 Incremental Flashcopy

This customer's implemented on October 10th , GDPS MGM Global , with three sites and a fourth copy FC1.They are doing the Flashcopy every day and they are complaining about the time to complete the full copy.One of the solutions would be to change...
about 4 years ago in GDPS 7 Planned for future release

Option to prevent inadvertent use of LINKAGE-SECTION data items prior to establishing addressability

In a COBOL program, the LINKAGE SECTION is used to describe data structures that are made available to this program from another program or method. Addressability to these data structures are established in a variety of ways, such as via reference...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 9 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 ...
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support outbound CICS --> REST API (OpenAPI v3) calls using a containerized solution on OpenShift

Currently the exposure of OpenAPI 3 REST APIs inbound to z/OS is supported on openshift x86 containerized architecture. Outbound calls from CICS to the REST API (OpenAPI v3) instead require the runtime to be installed on z/OS. This generates a dup...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration