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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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IWS CPU usage improvement for ETT data set CLOSE events

Each IWS tracker subsystem on z/OS gets control during data set CLOSE processing in order to check, if this event is related to an ETT-defined data set (ETT = Event Triggered Tracking) in the EQQDSLST-file.If EQQDSLST contains many entries (severa...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 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...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

PDELETE: for managing physical data provide a retention period instead of a date from when to delete.

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: In IZSAM Physical Delete function there should be something like PDEL=nn where nn stands for "keep physical data for nn+current...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Provide a new option for how CICS should recover from a storage violation

Why is it useful? If I enable all CICS storage protection options (RENTPGM=PROTECT STGPROT=YES TRANISO=YES), define all programs with EXECKEY=USER, and define all transactions with ISOLATE=YES, I can be reasonably confident that any victim task of...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

TWS user id is unable to impersonate to job user on NFS v4

TWS userID on zCentric agents is unable to impersonate to job user on NFS v4, but it works fine on NFS v3. There is a restriction for "setuid" on NFS v4, so TWS agent if installed on NFS v4 is able to the run jobs only as TWS user. Jobs with other...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Automated build process for CICS Web Services (wsbind files), XML Transforms (xsdbind files) and JSON Transforms (jsbind files)

We are working on modernizing our environment by transitioning to an CI/CD Pipeline in conjunction with a modern source code management tool. Currently there is no ability to automate the build of CICS Web Services, XML transform and JSON transfor...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

RMFIII report STORM in CDP

Could we have RMFIII report STORM in CDP ? we currently have STORR STORC and STORF , but STORM is missing . kind regards Régis
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

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