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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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add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IMS Archive Enhancements

- Add a new option to the archive function for retention days to specify keeping records. The records are not archived (not deleted and not written to a file) that are generated within the retention days. - Add a new function DUMP. It is just writ...
about 1 month ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

List Omegamon products and versions in Configuration Manager (like PARMGEN).

In PARMGEN, when selection option 3.1 (Set up/Refresh PARMGEN work environment), a list would be shown of all Omegamon products and versions installed in the selected target datasets. With Configuration Manager (CFM) there is no such list, and now...
about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Auto mapping

Considering that there will be many fields, manually linking/mapping needs lots of efforts. If customer provide a mapping information (such like excel where API field name and COBOL field name are provided), can the toolkit imports excel file and ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Support multiple arguments to mrm

mrm (member remove) currently only supports one dataset at a time. It would be convenient and ergonomic to support removing members from multiple datasets at a time. $ mrm "HLQ.DS1(*)" "HLQ.DS2(*)"BGYSC1702E Wrong number of parameters were specifi...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Include CPU consumed by API in interceptors

Customer needs to determine APIs with high CPU to target for tuning. The customer uses OMEGAMON for JVM for API monitoring and they would like CPU per API included in detail reports.
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

high availability and resiliency for messages sent via MQ descriptors (TYPE=MQSERIES)

We have got applications sending messages via CHNG/ISRT calls on MQ descriptors ( IBM MQ Parameter TYPE=MQSERIES ) Subparameter MQRTQMGR=mqmd_replytoqmgr specifies the MQMD_REPLYTOQMGR value. When operating within a PLEX-environment (MVS-Plex, ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Debugger clean-up job should stop all debugger message regions that are waiting for input

We are using Debug for Z/OS in our test regions. We have scheduled the clean-up job to run every night. This job executes the Program EQANIPSB. It has 2 steps - the first step stops all the debugger message regions and the next step deregisters al...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable the Open Enterprise Foundation (OEF) ported tools to be zIIP Enabled

Please consider enabling all of the ported tools included with the Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS to be zIIP capable. This will encourage their use while providing greater capabilities for the OEF customers.
6 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Not under consideration