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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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Use the Installation and Configuration Assistance Tool to customize KEPEDSDF

Currently, panel KM255P2 is used to provide the names, size and storage attributes of the Historical Data Stores. The dialog uses these values to create a customized job for allocation. For example, allocation by SMS Storclass instead of Volser. H...
almost 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

output from the Omegamon XE for CTG exit directed to another output ddname, instead of default STDERR.

Currently, when the OMEGAMON XE for CICS TG monitoring exit (Request Monitoring Exit: com.ibm.omegamon.kgw.rmexit.TxnMonitor) is enabled, its messages are produced under STDERR ddname under the CTG address space: BROWSE - STDERR STARTING CTGBATCH ...
over 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Too many dataset in RTE

Too many dataset in RTE - “The Run Time Environment (RTE) for ITM has too many datasets. For example, our main production SYSPLEX of 13 systems has a total of 6122 ITM datasets. In a future design/release, IBM should consider a consolidation/reduc...
about 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Need an API in OM XE for zOS to retrieve RMFIII data

Currently we are using RMFIII to monitor Report Class TPS rate, queue time, execution time and Total response time using RMFIII sysplex view. This info and some other info are currently not available in OM/XE. We need an API from OM/XE to retrieve...
over 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

ITM has too many started tasks address spaces

Too many address spaces - “ITM has too many started tasks address spaces. For example, our systems have 9 ITM started task address spaces per system for the z/OS OMEGMON monitor alone. In a future design/release, IBM should consider a reduction in...
about 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Remove manual time reset commands

Have the Omegamon products use the system timer, so that when the time changes we don't have to issue manual commands.
almost 14 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Count number of times an application has rejected connections

Omegamon MFN has a good count on how many Connection rejects a TCPIP application has, and the time stamp is the last time a reject occurred. but if an application is having constaint issues a count of how many times the application rejected sessio...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Update the OMEGAMON XE for Mainframe Networks product to package and use the Pre-req checker

ITM v6.2.3 includes a Prereq checker that improves Time to Value through pre-installation/pre-deployment checking. Other products can leverage this capability by defining the environment profiles associated with their application, submitting same ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

180K CSM buffer space is needed

180K CSM data is missing for both ECSA and Data sapce on NPM 2.7 SMF records. There are data on the other buffers (32K, 60K, 4K,...) but none on 180K. We would like to get the data so we can monitor and tune these.
almost 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / API 1 Not under consideration

Validate RFE process feed into RTC

This will validate the flow of an RFE into RTC
over 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

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