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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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Only able to record testcases from a single loadmodule

We are having the same program linked into multiple loadmodules. We would like to record testcases from all loadmodules, but after the first recording, the record dialogue has the Program name locked. And according to instrcuctions, the "Program n...
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

stream RMF III sysplex ZFSOVW (zFS overview) to CDP

We're a big user of zFS datasets, therefore we need to look at the CACHE used by systems using RMF, it would be nice to have these metrics streamed to Splunk using Z IBM Common Data Provider
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

new members HBORSxxx et HBOUSxxx for DFSMS-HSM FSR records

Hi, It would be useful to have this SMF record streamed by CDP : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=areas-fsrfunction-statistics-record That would give a LOG of what's happening in DFHSM. Regards Régis
6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Under review

Support for TYPES LOB (BLOB, CLOB...)

Support of fields with SQL types LOB (BLOB, CLOB...) .Example: 10 'A'-TXT-NACHM-GRND USAGE SQL TYPE IS XML AS CLOB(10000) OCCURS 1.
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance SET_SQTY to work during the EXTEND environment

SET_SQTY can only be used to assign a secondary allocation during the ALLOCATION environment, but it would also be useful to alter the secondary allocation during the EXTEND environment based on other detectable conditions.
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Under review

DELAY statement under CICS for millisecond range

Presently the DELAY statement in Enterprise PLI/I for z/OS supports milliseconds only for Batch – under CICS-Environment it rounds down to the nearest second. It would be helpful if it also works for CICS in the millisecond range – especially if t...
2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Additional validation of input arrival date in 5.1 panel

When adding an application in 5.1 at 23:59 and confirming it at 0:01 the input arrival date will be the one set at 23:59. It is causing that variables like '%OYMD' inside jobs will be provided by the date from the previous day. Additionally, when ...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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