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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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Change monitoring way of elapsed and CPU in policies

Currently, when using policies, calculation of CPU and Elapsed times are done between EXEC CICS commands. So, if previous EXEC CICS never completes, rules are not triggered if CPU or Elapsed are exceeded. It should be interesting to monitor these ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Security for commands through OM (OCM) on resource level. UPD TRAN NAME(MYTRAN) ... IMS.CSLPLEX.UPD.TRAN.MYTRAN

When application programmers will make commands from ZOWE, Ansible etc. it will be necessary to protect resources so a programmer could only work with her/his own resources. Even for Type-1 commands through OM (OCM) and CIMS/DIMS for DIS TRAN MYTR...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

UNCOND option support for a GSAM resource in IMS managed ACB environment

In a management ACB environment, our customers must execute IMS Catalog Populate utility (DFS3PU00) or ACB Generation and Catalog Populate utility (DFS3UACB) when they update existing PSB/DBD resources. However, sometimes they need to fall back th...
8 months ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Is a defect

Maximum size of HLQ.RKC2HIST limited to 4 GB

The Poste Italiane customer processes millions of transactions at hour and the history RKC2HIST dataset of 4 GB the depth of the historical data on the most important CICS is only 2 hours. The customer would like to be able to allocate the dataset...
8 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Expand HLASM macro display by command

For a debugging session of an HLASM module, we currently have to decide whether to expand all macros (i.e. show the code they generate) or only show the macro call itself. The first option renders the display nearly useless, because of the sheer n...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add support for the HTTP method PATCH in API requester

As of z/OS Connect EE v3.0.9, the API requester function only supports 6 HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS. So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Planned for future release

Automatic or assistance function for handling submitted jobs' status 'missing' after maintanance

We are running 50k+ batch jobs under IBM workload scheduler control everyday and hardly can find a clean window without any batch running for host maintenance (rolling IPL) or IBM workload scheduler itself recycling. We usually found those submitt...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Assign LPAR activation profile using GDPS

We would like to be able to specify the LPAR activation profile to be used for an LPAR Activate. I see this as very similar to specifying the Load information (address & parm).
over 4 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Enhancements on CA7 functions

CA7 Job Triggering Flow gives a complete flow of a selected job. However, that's too much results returned. The CA7 jobs I provided it's for a small AD project and we have many projects that are larger. It's very hard to find a selected job on the...
2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

JES output - download to PC all at once (TS017049927)

Please see ticket TS017049927. Ticket question: I am trying to download a list of JES OUTPUTS to my PC. I see you can export individual ones easily but dont want to do this for each one. I tried highlighting all the output, clicking FILE>EXPORT...
2 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 0 Under review

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