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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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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

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

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 ...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

DWC Connection Engine Admin Role

We are using a separate DWC instance on each sysplex to connect operators to different controllers.The responsible systems programmer has created connection engines.When the systems programmer was off on vacation, we wanted to lookup the connectio...
8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

GDPS Ansible Collection for IBM Z

While GDPS has already provided the APIs for integration with customers developed automations or CI/CD pipelines, it would further simplify the use of the GDPS APIs if IBM could provide the GDPS Ansible Collection for IBM Z. Using of Ansible Tower...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

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

Kafka fault tolerance , data loss and scalability improvement.

The zAPM product's Kafka configuration is currently not utilizing persistence storage and is running on a single pod. While this setup may be functional to some extent, it exposes the system to potential risks and limitations. I kindly request you...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Improvements to the GROUP keyword used in the SYSPLEX verb

We would like the ability to have enhanced selection criteria for the GROUP statement in the SYSPLEX verb. As an example during Site Switch, we shutdown the whole of a SITE with the exception of certain systems, it would be useful to have a statem...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

Tolerate unknown elements for SOAP web services

One of our web service applications is getting a DFHPI1007 error calling a remote service from CICS (so CICS is the web service consumer). It turned out, that the server system added some optional elements to their web service response in their re...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add CEC info to GDPS panel VPCPSTD1

GDPS panel VPCPSTD1 includes an 8 char column with LPARname. However, from this panel an user cannot determine which CEC an LPAR is defined on.It is possible to have duplicate LPARnames on different CECs. This is useful if system instances are mov...
about 4 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release