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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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Omegamon CICS should monitor CMAS regions

We have needs to monitor CMAS regions the same way as other CICS regions (including Near-Tearm History). Please consider in future releases.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

IDz: Add the "Open Member" function to the JCL Editor

When viewing/editing a JCL member with the JCL Editor, the Context Menu should support the "Open Member" function. This function is available in the Context Menu when viewing/editing a JCL member with the LPEX Editor but not with the JCL Editor.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Allow TWS to cancel jobs it has submitted early

There's a new feature to allow TWS to submit jobs early to the systems, however as soon as it does then if a decision is made to not execute the job it needs to be done on the system, which would require giving additional RACF access. It would be ...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Need SA to re-establish hardware connections without recycles

There are numerous occurrences where the BCPII and Hardware connections to the Z environment have failed, either due to an operator not suspending the connection or due to a Hardware failure. When this occurs there is no current ability to redrive...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Use CICS Policy to replace CPSM RTA functionality (Check if LU62 Connection is Aquired)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for LU62 Connection Acquired to CICS, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do c...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add support for the usage of symbolic links for USS Path

I would like to have the ability to use symbolic links under USS Control > Process Command/Path in the System Automation Policy Database to remove the need for submitting a policy database build and configuration refresh if the path is changed.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Request new SHBODEFS member like HBOUAKZ8, with new fields for newer Z machines like z14, z15 and z16.

IBM cannot change HBOUAKZ8 to add new counters introduced by z14 and later machines. The HBOUAKZ8 job is used to write Db2 UNLOAD file which will be subsequently load to Db2 tables. It has to be consistent with the Db2 schema set in the IZPCA/TDS ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

CDP and TWS logs

With TWS , there is an option to wite LOGS and messages in a zFS file ( parm CDP(YES) ). Then the zFS file can be streamed online using CDP (Common Data Provider). However the file is not properly formatted as KV (key=value) for Splunk. Could you ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2

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