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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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Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Onboard confluent-kafka python packages to IBM AI toolkit repository

This is an essential python package that is widely used by our clients in distributed platform, this package will provide the necessary support for our developers to interact with confluent kafka product on mainframe.
10 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Future consideration

DWC should not be installed in z/OS UNIX in a zFS filesystem with read/write access

Within the current design, we would like to see a clear segregation between the files which REQUIRE write access from the files for which READ access would be sufficient, within the "USERDIR" directory. The standard executables should be delivered...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

High Speed Connector endpoint group file lacks the ability to specify a local bind to IP address.

We have a use case which will not allow the use of the default CPU IP address as the source IP for a TCP/IP connection. As it is now, the is no mechanism to specify an alternate binding address to use with High Speed Connector.
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Omegamon CICS should monitor CMAS regions

We have needs to monitor CMAS regions the same way as other CICS regions (including Near-Tearm History). Please consider in future releases.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Add ASCII/Text transfer support to the SFTP server

Currently we are using FTPS support where clients can use both binary and text options while sending files to zTPF. The SFTP support provided only support binary transfers and we would like to be able to offer the ASCII/text option.
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Store Up/Down Message in ASF and show in DISPINFO

The message(s) that triggered ACTIVMSG, resp. TERMMSG, should be stored in the Automation Status File (ASF) along with the already available timestamp.This information should then also be shown by DISPINFO. This requirement has been discussed at E...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Support exclude feature for REXX MATCH() function

I need to exclude one or more item from a list to suppress an alert. So I would like a MATCH if something is NOT in the string. In my current situation I automate CNZ4200I (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=messages-cnz4200i), but I need...
5 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Add support for the usage of symbolic links for USS Path

I would like to have the ability to use symbolic links under USS Control > Process Command/Path in the System Automation Policy Database to remove the need for submitting a policy database build and configuration refresh if the path is changed.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Enhance Capability of DFSNDMX0 Exit

1) Pass information to exit to indicate if a deadlock abend was due to an ESS deadlock. Business value: DB2 handles lock timeouts on object locks, such as tablespace locks, as deadlocksThese are persistent conditions, a retry of the transaction is...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration