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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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Enable dynamic activation of CDP logging function after it was disabled

Dear developers, We enabled CDPz data collection function integrated within IWSz to have EQQ8006I (indicating the status change of jobs scheduled in current plan) message to feed our home grown web tool. But we met an issue - While the owning syst...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

"Add func" of an Application parameter would be good to the Error Handler layout (ended-in-error-list)

Hello, I would have a suggestion for the TWS ended-in-error-list layout. In the TWS error handler, usually we set the required fields which help us for the error handling. It usually depends on the design how a customer use the Scheduler tool. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Clear command for IWS selection panels (ISPF dialog)

For the IWSz ISPF dialog a new primary command (CLEAR or RESET) should be implemented for all selection panels (e.g. EQQASELP, EQQSOPFP, ..) that clears all input fields or resets them to the default value. Use case:Because of new functionality th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CICS policies - Suspend time policy rule for user task

CICS policies currently don't have an option to take action on an user task based on Suspend time. Even though RTA has this setup , cost of implementing RTA and its process is not as efficient as CICS policies. Hence Im making a request to IBM to ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

Certify ooRexx version 5.0 for use with TOS.

Version 4.2 has long standing reliability issues. Version 5.0 is newer and will offer better perfomance to TOS customers.
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Future consideration

Correlate the PST processing the request with QUERY ODBM TYPE(THREAD) information in IMS to identify and kill the concerned long running threads and regions.

This is very useful to identify and kill the inefficient and long running IMS SQLs. At the moment we cannot correlate between the ODBM threads and processing region (DBT) on IMS side. There could be queries that could run longer and do not fill th...
3 months ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 0 Under review

GDPS and LCP reporting

We don't want to face errors when using GDPS and LCP. First suggestion.We ask for a way to automatically monitor and a proactive report on the virtual Capacity used values before a volumes Safe Guarded Capacity(SGC) runs full. Today in GDPS panel ...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

Need API Requester Project creation in IDz

The Service and API archive projects are created using the primary menu option, File, and selecting “z/OS Connect EE Service Project” or “z/OS Connect EE API Project” respectfully in IDz. Using these functions generates projects specially setup fo...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 10 Future consideration

Increase the maximum supported SafeGuarded Copy captures beyond the current 500

The current limit of 500 SGC captures means we have to have a trade-off between the frequency of captures, and the retention period of those captures. We have currently have a company-wide requirement for 7 days retention, which means we are limit...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

OOS tracks in MGM3SITE recovery region

When production is failed over in the RECOVERY region, we will be in Global copy from C-B. When we are ready for failing back to main region, we run the MGM3SITE_GOHOME_CAS_RS1_RS1. During that, it will ensure EMPTYOOS. However, if there are lot o...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release