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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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TN3270E Protocol

Kyndryl uses IBM product called System Automation for Integrated Operations (SAIOM). This product is providing our Operators with access to system consoles. SAIOM is client/server-based product. It provides a menu where an Operator can select a pa...
6 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Report on SMF 98 rcds.

SMF 98 rcd produces a 5 sec view of the CPC and its Lpars which is highly recommended by IBM and Peter Enrico for example for viewing CPU usage and other KPMs for assisting in debugging Performance Issues. Provides High Frequency throughput statis...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory

In large environments with many nodes it is possible for ITM to overrun the 31-bit memory allocation causing abends in Remote TEMS started tasks on z/OS. Please enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory as a means to avoid this memory overrun in situations...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Outbound support via z/OS Connect EE

Please support zAPM tracking of outbound traffic(API requestor), ie, CICS to CICS via https / z/OS Connect EE (similar to CICS=>MQ=>CICS tracking which has recently been released). This needs to be configurable as not all the APIs providers ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

JOB LOG MONITORING SUPPORT FOR USING WILCARD (*) IN ANY MESSAGE STRING

Job log monitoring code supports the use of a wildcard (*) as part of the filter criteria. Job log monitoring however only allows this to be used as the beginning of a search string. Example of supported definition: DUMMY :JLM_OFFSET=0JLM_DDNAME=S...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

IDz (16.x) : Db2 for z/OS, DDL generation for the dependent UDF objects

Staring IDz 15.0.6 the DDL generation for the complex dependent UDF objects has been deprecated, this particular feature was working correctly until 15.0.5. In our site some appl. developers and DBA(occasionally) uses these features for their regu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

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CTCz should be included in zD&T.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Change WS name of job(s) on a CP through a batchjob.

The possibility in ZWS to change specific WS name of job(s) on a CP through a batchjob. (as mass update on ZWS DB). If an application id can be selected with a wildcard would be great. We want to remove a WS on the current plan (option 5.5) but th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Include SMF type 42 in LISTSMF when INCLUDE-DSN

When using INCLUDE-DSN=Y for LISTSMF, only SMF record types 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 35, 36, 40, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69 will be checked. I'm missing type 42 in which I can find what actions have been taken within a PDS i.e. ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve the interface between zWS and CDP so that CDP continues to work with zWS if the USS filesystem is moved or restarted on a different LPAR (AUTOMOVE)

There are 3 inter-related requests here all for CDP/zWS interface (parameter CDP(YES): (1) a command to force a SWITCH of the CDP logs (similar to what is available for the SWITCHMLOG) (2) a command to force the CDP interface to start up again (wi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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