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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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Enhance Capability of DFSNDMX0 Exit

1) Pass information to exit to indicate if a deadlock abend was due to an ESS deadlock. Business value: DB2 handles lock timeouts on object locks, such as tablespace locks, as deadlocksThese are persistent conditions, a retry of the transaction is...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration

Prevent users from debugging excluded programs

Due to many reasons (privacy, performance, ...) organizations might want some programs to be excluded from debugging. Currently, the command NAMES EXCLUDE allows for that. However, it lacks fine-grain control over that exclusion. Worse than that, ...
10 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Message when PPI status changes

Some NetView functions need to connect to the NetView PPI to be operational. We can see these vis DISPPI command. We manage a couple of function using SA and have to poll the DISPPI command to check the connection. To make this processing better, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Update zoau mvscmd to support --cmd= for tso commands

The zoau mvscmd supports the --steplib= for a --pgm=program. Please add an option to invoke a tso command such as --cmd=command and then the --args= would be parameters passed to the tso command. This would fill the void the default tsocmd lacks a...
8 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under consideration

API for admin dashbord

To improve automation capability setting up, creating and managing projects that in normal case require manual intervention through the dashboard. I propose to add a api to do the same tasks through some kind of api (http, config-file or cli) to b...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enable zoau man pages to be indexed by mandb

ZOAU comes with a myrid of commands and each has its own man page. The mandb command will index all man pages, and it does that for the zoau man pages. BUT there is nothing in the zoau man pages that is indexed by mandb with zoa or zoau thus preve...
8 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Data to include security wait time

We often have short but impactful delays that are recorded in SMF 110 performance records with only "Lock Manager" wait time. There are various reason why a lock manager wait could occur so we can't tell from the SMF data. The instructions from IB...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

COBOL source input stored as compressed encrypted part of load module

Hi, to avoid loss of COBOL (or any other) source code in the future can the IBM compilers please generate a load module that stores inside it the full COBOL source input in a compressed and encrypted form which is then wrapped and protected before...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Under review

CICS/RRS support for batch EXCI/NOSYNCHONRETURN connecting to CICS on a different LPAR

Please add RRS support to CICS for NOSYNCHONRETURN where the batch EXCI job runs on 1 LPAR connecting to CICS on another LPAR.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

E3270 Events Tab KOBSEVTS should accept multi-tenancy settings

Currently Omegamon E3270 events tab KOBSEVTS doesn't use multi-tenancy settings and shows all available events. KOBSEVTS should benefit multi-tenancy settings. The customer should have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether they want to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration