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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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Session recording files maintenance

The product today creates session recording files without limitation. This force the customer to have an external process to clear older versions of theses files or risk with hard disk failure. Suggested here to add the ability to define history r...
2 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

Convert all BJTDBASE tablespaces to Partition by Growth (PBG)

Currently, the DDL supplied with ITOM for all Db2 objects in the ITOM BJTDBASE database creates all base tablespace objects as classic segmented tablespaces, which have been deprecated by Db2 development for at least 3 years now. The recommended t...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Add file access logging to SFTP server

Currently only user login activity is captured in the log under /tpfjam/ibmutil. Enhance this logging to also include file access activity at a minimum (who's doing what, when and where) as well as FTP commands if possible. Potentially include dif...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka to Open Enterprise Foundation

The open source tool Kafka is increasingly becoming a common platform for Z tools. We know of Omegamon, Common Data Provider, IBM Z Anomaly Analytics. The idea is to add this therefor to the Open Enterprise Foundation product.
5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 4 Under review

support COBOL/Java interoperability

With Cobol 6.4 COBOL/Java interoperability was improved but we can not build such a Programm using DBB out of the box. We need the following. 1) Dependency Scanner should detect the following JAVA-CALLABLE directive JAVA-SHAREABLE directive Enhanc...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Users want to know when they need to rebind their IBM File Manager for z/OS packages

[Current Product & Version]-IBM File Manager for z/OS V15 -z/OS V2.5-Db2 12 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is planning to upgrade Db2 for z/OS and IBM File Manager for z/OS. PLAN(yyyy/...
5 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Exclusively run the Hyperswap 'Phase 1 check', via a Planned/unplanned Hyperswap script.

We would be interested in having a tool (SCRIPT,...) that could be executed before running a Planned/Unplanned HS simulation, and certify whether we are (or not) prepared to be able to perform an HS without causing, for example, the fall of a syst...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

UserBuild enabled IDEs to pass dependency set for uploading to USS

Problem: We are facing an issue where a certain type of programs dependencies are not being discovered during the user build. The program will compile just fine as long as the dependencies are available on USS. So one challenge is to get all the r...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 5 Future consideration

Correct the handling of an EQQJTARC file full (SB37 abend) to ensure that job tracking records are not lost, and jobs are not submitted twice

Currently, if the EQQJTARC file becomes full, immediately the zWS JT ARCHIVER subtask fails (message EQQZ045E SUBTASK JT LOG ARCHIVER ENDED UNEXPECTEDLY) however it is still possible to write job tracking (JT) records to the JT files which are not...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

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

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