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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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Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
4 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cobol Editor BIDI support

Currently BIDI customers use mostly LPEX editor. The COBOL editor BIDI support is minimal and is not sufficient. It is required in order to allow BIDI customersa) enjoy from COBOL editor features b) allow BIDI customer to upgrade to future IDz rel...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Automated collection of disk capacity data from GPDS - Maybe by writing entries to SMF.

In GDPS today we have a brilliant function to show the current DS8K pool usage related to capacity. GDPS panel named VPCPLCS6 and VPCPLCS7) Showing numbers for usable capacity, provisioned capacity, SGC used, SGC provisioned and much more.The pane...
10 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

Notify or automatically withdraw LCP RECOVER background copy when it ends

Forgetting to ENDCOPY results in eventually running out of SGC captures since the captures involved in the RECOVER remain locked and can't be . Ideally, there would be an additional parameter to specify an automatic ENDCOPY when the background cop...
10 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Renew a certificate in the ring without restart CTG

As indicated in case TS016643542, currently, when we modify a certificate in the RACF ring used by the CTG, it is necessary to restart the STC for detect it, which implies a loss of service. We think it would be interesting to have the possibility...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
10 months ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

Provide soultion to automate setting of CICS options

We are looking to automate our mainframe testing. We are using the RSE API to enable automatic submission of jobs. With jobs adding hourglass options is trivial with the correct dd names, but with CICS we only have the BMS panels with HGCC and HGU...
4 months ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Report that analyzes the behavior of CICS Workload when changing from one LPAR A to another LPAR B (with different capacity) and if this LPAR B supports this new workload (if the LPAR B does not support it, the report should indicate what changes need to be made to the LPAR B to support the CICS Workload)

We received this request from management because it would help in evaluating the renewal of the contract with IBM.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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