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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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For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
24 days ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

Add "Event" Annotations to IntelliMagic

IntelliMagic Vision could benefit from the ability to toggle on/off event annotations. Giving administrators the ability to insert an event into the DB. This event could range from anything from a large Application Release or Retirement, a CPU or ...
18 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Under review

Console / Dashboard for Vision Automator Health

Systems Admin, and Intellimagic Admin. It would be great if the windows components that comprise the vision automator would come packaged with a 'console'. Currently when I want to check status of activities, I need to open my current days log fil...
18 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Under review

Disambiguate DB2 Members Across Sysplexes in Health Insights Filters

Current Challenge: IntelliMagic DB2 Health Insights, Sections (Health Exceptions / Db2 ) report (e.g., reports like BP Health, GBP Health, etc.) currently do not identify the Sysplex/System from which a Db2 Data Sharing Group or standalone Db2 mem...
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Allow creating groupings by a tag or label

Due to the enormous number of CICS regions/JVMServers, it is extremely difficult to easily and quickly locate/view specific information during the analysis process using the E3270UI interface.Therefore, we understand that the possibility of groupi...
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

IMS Catalog: Enhance Library Builder Utility to generate source for an ACB version

This goes hand in hand with IMSSS-I-312] . IMS Catalog stores versions of ACBs. There is a Library Builder Utility that can generate the source for the ACBs. This should be enhanced to generate source for ACB versions so that it would allow for fa...
5 days ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Submitted

Allow Change Accumulation to have dual output datasets

From a recoverability perspective, it is good practice to have dual copies of logs, archives, image copies. Change Accumulation datasets are also used in recovery and it would be helpful if we could write dual Change Accumulation datasets, one on ...

IMS Catalog should support ACB update restore to old version

The catalog can keep x days or x number of ACBs and thus these can be used to backout an ACB change. But there is no way of activating an old ACB from catalog and updating the Directory with the details of the restored or old ACB. This would allow...
5 days ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Submitted

Enhancement to the RAMFIL USER statement

We have source sipfil.cpy components that are shared among VIPs. We are in the process of building a loosely coupled system with different CPUIDs for each front end/backend pair. We would like a way to keep the sipfil.cpy source common where they ...
5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Actions zoom menu for Queue/Channel

Add zoom menu to Queue/Channel details to popup take actions menu and able to administer Queue/Channel in case you were redirected straight to details panel.
5 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Under review