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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 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 Not under consideration

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 1 Not under consideration

Change the timing of the first ASMTDLI call to shorten database unavailability during takeover phase

We are looking for a way to shorten the database unavailability during the Online Reorg takeover phase. At present, in some cases the database is unavailable for up to 3 minutes. ORF team investigated with IMS team, From the results of the investi...
about 1 month ago in IMS Online Reorganization Facility for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Multiple dependencies in DWC Plan View

I would like to suggest that the 'Plan View' functionality for DWC on z/OS gets improved.Today when it's used and you search for a specific job stream or application, the Plan View only shows one level of predecessors.The only way to see an entire...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in OMEGAMON for JVM

OMEGAMON for JVM (and record SMF 123) doesn't provide CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in z/OS Connect Server OAS3 native. This is a requirement for the client to get this information to be able to monitor and analyze perfo...
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

When a task purge/forcepurge attempt fails, there will be a log message saying so

We get a lovely message saying that the request to purge (or force purge) a task has been accepted. If it works, we get a message saying the task ended. If it doesn't... nothing.
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Under review

Cross debugging

There are some scenarios where the user who is intended to debug some program isn't the one who submits the JCL. Among other situations, this happens when the job is launched from ControlM. In this case, the principal is a service user instead of ...
4 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

WCA4Z and zOpenDebug plugins do not work well together

If they are both installed in VScode when you create debug profile the WCA4Z registion screen startup getting the focus . Everytime an action in the debug profile view is done. This is very anoying
8 days ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Submitted

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8 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Integration Test Builder for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
22 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Under review

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