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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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File Manager for z/OS Option to Generate IDCAMS DEFINE CLUSTER, AIX, PATH for a given VSAM file

A site we support had users that retired and the IDCAMS DEFINE JCL could not be located. The VSAM KSDS had multiple Alternate Indexes too. The new users were not trained in IBM VSAM so they have no knowledge on creating IDCAMS Control Cards. I had...
8 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Infoprint using IEBGENER and Resolve symbols &DAY as DYYMMDD on Subject and Email attachment names

Hi Team, We have specific requirement on Infoprint using IEBGENER and Resolve symbols &DAY as DYYMMDD on Subject and Email attachment names. Can you please consider on this IDEA. Regards, Sathya
8 months ago in Printsw / Infoprint Server and Transforms 2 Functionality already exists

Print Report and then have option to mention email id and PDF or TEXT and send email

Hi Team, Currently already generated report print option has to mention DEST, but we are looking for option to mention email id and PDF or TEXT and send email which will help customers receiveing email instead of sending to DEST Printer. Pleaes co...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

TLS encryption for all Mainframe endpoints, Controller, trackers, server.

Most companies are in the process of encrypting all IP traffic. having all zWS components using TLS or ATLS would support the growing needs. SSL is no longer what Auditors & Cyber security all across the enterprise systems.
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Functionality already exists

Properly resolve a user's TSO prefix

For the odd shops like ours where a TSO prefix is not the user's ID, this can cause a lot of ZOAU commands/python invocations to fail. ZOAU tries to allocate temporary work datasets under the user's "prefix", but it seems to just grab the user's I...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Functionality already exists

CICS Policy for Container (Channel) Size

We have a case where Client passes a Channel into CICS that is rather huge - 38,DB7,93Cx bytes. This drives the region short on storage on the GET CONTAINER, impacting other region workload. It would be beneficial to have a CICS Task Storage polic...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Functionality already exists

Choice of view-level Page size for ALL workspaces as opposed to setting/resetting it for each Workspace

Currently each Workspace has the View-level page size at a default of showing 100 rows; you can reset that to ALL ROWS (or another number of rows) for each workspace. In our environment we would like to have the option to change that default setti...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists

Support CICS JSON Web Services calls

Customer is converting SOAP web services into Rest JSON web services to call CICS programs, need ZAPM Connect to support this application transformation.
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Extend COPY-to-PDS API to link to buildFile

Today, the Transfer.groovy script of zAppBuild allows us to push non-buildable files through the pipeline. All MVSExec execute records are showing a relative file path of the repository based on the build file reference. It would be consistent, if...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Functionality already exists

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from zCEE, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from zCEE and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from zCEEChannel. Have zCEE and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Co...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists