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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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Include User Name and Mapped User ID details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to filter z/OS Connect API Provider metrics on my ODP dashboard based on the User Name and Mapped User ID of requests. This will allow us to gain insights into usage across different distributed applicatio...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

Include HTTP Return Codes details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect Site Reliability Engineer, I want to be able to view request HTTP Return Codes for z/OS Connect APIs in the ODP datasets. Today, I can see a "count" metric of HTTP Error Codes, but not the actual Error Codes. This will allow me, ...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

Include z/OS Connect HTTP Header details in metrics published to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to view header details, such as Correlation ID, in the z/OS Connect Request data that is sent to Omegamon Data Provider. This will allow me to add filters to my dashboards to view specific requests, using ...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

Maintain Global Information for IMS Programs

Please add support to maintain IMS program global status in RM, similar to the current support for transactions, databases and database areas, GSTSTRAN, GSTSDB and GSTSAREA. Support for programs with GSTSPGM would allow stopping and starting progr...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Future consideration

APPMON should work for Natural RPC Server when zIIP feature is activated

Application Monitoring (APPMON) doesn't show NATRPC requests when using NATETBZ(zIIP eligible). We tested, Brokerstub NATETB23(not zIIP eligible) instead of NATETBZ(zIIP eligible) and surprise APPMON shows NATRPC requests. For having a proper appl...
5 days ago in EntireX 0 Submitted

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP command in the INGLIST panel at a group level

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP (INGREQ)command in the INGLIST panel at a group level as the SUSPEND ( INGSUSPD ) command does. It makes no sense to be able to see all the dependency tree for the SUSPEND comma...
5 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Create INODE version upgrade tool.

Currently for z/TPF TFS INODEs there is no available functionality to upgrade an INODE to the most current INODE version. In some systems, directories/files have been present since the initialization of the TPF TFS and are still at INODE version ‘...
6 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

Provide option to apply GKB updates outside of SMP/E if that is the customer preference

Previously, monthly GKB updates were provided by a file which could be uploaded to reflect updated/changed products. However this was recently changed to enforce the use of SMP/E to apply GKB updates. This does not work in our shop for the followi...
9 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Submitted

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 ...
17 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Cobol Json Parse / Json Generate not reversible when working with Numeric Edited Fields

Hello, I would like to mention again 2 old Cases from me (TS010652468 and TS016864176), because the problem happened again with another Developer. Can you please check the last Case (TS016864176), where some discussion took place and IBM decided t...
18 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Submitted

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