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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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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

PCOM FTP client file size limitation

PCOM FTP client fails to transfer file size close to or bigger than 1 GB and recommended to transfer about 200MB size of files for best performance, TS008008701. There is no file size limitation for well-known FTP clients, Winscp or FileZilla. I s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Include ZOAU as part of base Python

If using Python on zOS it is very likely it will be required to access zOS resources and therefore ZOAU will be required. To reduce the overheads associated with installing and maintaining 2 x products, ZOAU should come as part of the base Python ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 1 Future consideration

GDPSMNT Enhancement

Enhancement to GDPSMNT
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under 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

Support of CICS HTTP error response in application/json

When CISC as an HTTP server receive a web request via TCPIPSERVICE and send an error response (401 basic auth error, 404 no matching urimap definition...), it does so in text/xml, application/soap+xml, or HTML depending on the media type of the re...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Future 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

GDPS should automatically clean up from destructive repair operations on storage devices

We recently had a "B" box outage that required support to utilize the CST process that removes all in memory structures including copy services. This created orphaned secondary pairs in our GDPS Metro Global session. Currently within GDPS we can o...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Add DFHTABLE support for SIT (System Initialization Table).

Easier to upgrade CICS. Fewer tables to assemble. Can easily view all SIT Settings, when in ISPF, while reviewing the job, for ongoing support or analysis.
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Receiving meta information when listing members

z Open Automation Utilities provide function to check meta information when listing a data set (like created or last changed). It would be really usefull to have this function as well for member listing.
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

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