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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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System event and/or policy for excessive wait time on ENQ

It would be very helpful to have the ability to set a system event, and a policy, that would detect situations where any arbitrary but selectable ENQ has either 1) been held for at least a specified period of time and/or 2) is being waited upon by...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

show the transactions which is using the program

When set program phasein, if the program is in use, CICS will load the new load module for all the new program call. But the tasks running still use the old load module till all the tasks which are using this program end. Current there is no way t...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Event Management

SA should support specifying more attributes to feed Event management. Examples include policy to define a key for deduplication, recipient, category, severity, filtering criteria, time windows and more. Also SA should ship the "standard" events o...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Message automation should be multiuser capable and dynamically updateable

Multiple users should be able to define message automation. Activation and deactivation of message automation should be independent from the rest of the policy and also dynamically without the need to code NetView Automation Table statements.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

RDZ needs to support panels and groups for use with SDF2

Uploading RDz changes into SDF II. Want CICS screen changes made in RDz able to be loaded into SDF II libraries to keep code consistent. This will allow users to make CICS screen coding changes in SDF II and RDZ. This means RDz needs to support pa...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Restore previous API status after z/OS Connect restart

When restarting z/OS Connect it starts every API which has been deployed to it not matter if it was started or stopped before the shutdown. We would like z/OS Connect to restore the status an API had before the shutdown.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA and ODM Metrics within CICS

Within CICS Performance Analyzer is the capability to view the components that make up the response time of a transaction. As an example, I can determine how much time was spent in DB2, in MQ and other subsystems that CICS uses to complete a unit ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Upgrading the IBM OMEGAMON for 5G Networks, NVMe over TCP/IP

1- Adding the following functionalities to the OMEGAMON functionalities: A- 5G / VNF Networking Functionalities B- NVMe over TCP/IP functionalities 2- Adding the Advanced Functionalities of the following: A- Intel IPU (Infrastructure Processing un...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

IBM z with 5G network connectivity

1- Enabling the z/OS and z/VM system for Cloud satellite based on 5G networks and SD-WAN with Traffic Slicing for each z/OS and z/VM LPARs or Virtual machine, which is the required infrastructure for futuristic Enterprise Applications. 2- Also add...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Using Secured Connections with ICSF-based Certificate Keys

Establishing secured connections for IDz requires a security certificate. When this certificate is installed in RACF, there are two options for the private key; maintain within RACF or maintain with ICSF. This request is to have the ICSF-based key...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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