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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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Support live resize and live guest relocation for on-boarded z/VM virtual machines

With ICIC previous implementation, on-boarded z/VM virtual machine is not able to be live resize and live guest migration, due to lack of IUCV server running in the virtual machine. We can install the IUCV server into the on-boarded virtual machin...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Support rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine

Rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine from the same image of the original one, and re-use the same userid as before, just create new bootable volume as new root disk of the rebuilt virtual machine.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

For z/VM Service downloads via browser function, provide a text file containing all generated download links for copy/paste into GETSHOPZ tool

To use the GETSHOPZ tool in z/VM for downloading/unpacking service files from ShopzSeries, it is necessary to copy and paste the download link for each file into the GETSHOPZ tool. To facilitate ease of use for this tool, it would be helpful to pl...
about 1 year ago in IBM Shopz 0 Submitted