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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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Dynamic Domain Assignment for NetView Workstations

Objective: Enable the capability to dynamically update the domain assignment of a NetView workstation. This functionality should override the existing assignment set via the System Automation (SA) policy, allowing for temporary workload redistribu...
3 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

Support exclude feature for REXX MATCH() function

I need to exclude one or more item from a list to suppress an alert. So I would like a MATCH if something is NOT in the string. In my current situation I automate CNZ4200I (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=messages-cnz4200i), but I need...
5 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future 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

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

Enhance the Configuration Manager validation step to warn about undefined symbolics

With RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y, when a (user or system) symbolic is used in a &SYSNAME. configuration, and that symbolic is not defined in either the VAR$&SYSNAME. or as a system symbolic. Examples would be: RTE_TCP_PORT_NUM "&NONE_EXIST_...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Add support for MFA and Yubikey in DB2 for z/OS Connections

DB2 for z/OS has added basic MFA support. However, customers are integrating with more of the options provided by z/OS MFA. We need to expand this usage to accommodate customers configurations. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.0?topic=yubikey...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 0 Under review

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...
3 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...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to launch Python from batch like JZOS

We would like the ability to launch Python from batch like the way JZOS can launch Java from batch.
11 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Not under consideration

Threshold changes should be possible to dynamically revert back

Our team uses SA 4.1 and NetView 6.2.1 for mange applications. Panel AOFKAASR allows to dynamically add, change threshold but it doesn't allow to revert changes back to previous state. This function should be added to avoid recycle NetView, ACF CO...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration