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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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CICS should execute the EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO command under the EXECKEY of requesting program to honor CICS storage protection.

Currently when a USERKEY task executes an EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO if the receiving data area is smaller than the container data the program creates a storage violation. Because CICS processes the GET CONTAINER command on behalf of the task, a...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Common Extract Format for CSD, Bundles, and BAS

Provide a common extract format for CICS resource definitions, so that we can write internal audit and resource checks against the definitions, regardless of their source. The intent is to read all resources that have been staged so that we can pr...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Display JOBSUBMISSION status command

Need a modify or display command similar to F subsys,STATUS or F subsys,STATUS,SUBTASK displaying current status of each job submission option HOST, FT, z-centric and all HTTP workstations.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

update zCDP to support new fields in SMF30 : OA65055: NEW FUNCTION - Java usage reporting in SMF type 30 record SMF30CAS section

please update zCDP to have the new fields in SMF30CAS
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

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

MGM resiliency in recovery region

With MzGM 4-SITE we had resiliency in our recovery region for disk. For example, if C disk (XRC secondaries) died, GDPS/Metro in that region could Hyperswap to D disk and XRC would remain up, capable both of building DR and of doing our daily requ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

GDPS Granular security for Panels

Instead of having just access or no access to the GDPS panels it would be nice to grant Read or Update access to specific functions.
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

Include 45xx statistics records in the calculation of Average Checkpoint Duration, Average Checkpoint Frequency, and CPLOG count to the Checkpoint Summary portion of the Checkpoint Report.

IMS writes statistics records (45xx) at every checkpoint just before the checkpoint records (40xx). I would like to see something like this: Start 12Sep2024 00:00:37:75 IMS Performance Analyzer End 12Sep2024 00:01:53:25 Page 1 Checkpoint Summary ...
about 2 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 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...
4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 0 Under review

GDPS Metro Enhancement

Hyperswap script execution failed because of active CC sessions.
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

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