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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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CARMA Hyperlink to DSN from PRINT ELEMENT

Currently when a request is made to PRINT ELEMENT and RUN IN FOREGROUND is selected the user is presented with the results and a Target DSN . There is no facility to either click on a hyperlink for the DSN nor even copy the DSN.
9 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

PL/I support for Kafka SDK

Many customers use PL/I on Z. It would be good to have Kafka SDK support available to this language in addition to already available COBOL & C languages
4 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0 Submitted

When JAVA Guaranteed Message Delivery to Kafka queues Maximum Queue Depth is set high, MQ does not provide enough precision to alert for a production issue in a timely manner

ISSUE: One of our Customer's JAVA Guaranteed Message Delivery to Kafka queues Maximum Queue Depths are set high (and about to get higher), due to a requirement to store 36 hours of messages in the event of an extended destination outage. The minim...
4 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow parallel installation of Python FMIDs

Currently, every new Python version ist delivered with ++DELETEs for the older Pyhton FMID. A complete migration of everything is sometimes very difficult, as some packages from IBM Pythin AI Toolkit or pypi may don't work together with the new ve...
25 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0 Under review

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
4 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

Make dynamic resource templates assignable to a system/sysplex so that templates are not shown on systems where we don't want them used

Dynamic resource templates should have an option to only deploy them to a designated system/sysplex, currently all templates are deployed to all systems in the environment. Currently a user can create a resource that is not capable of running on t...
5 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Leaving certain Omegamon KD2 parameters empty in the configuration will cause RTE failures.

Why: Validating Omegamon configuration parameters in the configuration manager/PARMGEN will prevent failures in the RTE, and thus production issues. The issue: Currently Omegamon KD2 parameters are not validated for being left empty or undefined. ...

Parse/Read job step log even if it is in BINARY

When ZOAU read all job log STEPs it skips "CHECK1 SMPLOG 164" due to the fact that sometimes this step is in BINARY mode. The problem is that the Return Code detail message is within that step and it cannot be extracted. Looks like this step is a ...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
12 months ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration