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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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Please include the variables for SMCD and SMCR for SMF 119 type 2, and SMF 119 type 38-45

The SMCD and SMCR (Roce cards) are part of the Z16 and with ZOS 2.5 SMCDv2 was touted as a performance benefit. I need to run reports before and after to show the value of these configuration. Splunk is a key method of running trending reports and...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Under review

Since executing a pointer checker on a broken database is highly recommended by IBM IMS, it would be beneficial for IBM IMS to supply a pointer checker utility along with all the other IMS DB utilities already supplied with IBM IMS.

Since IBM IMS chose to make the IMS Catalog a HALDB DB, it would be beneficial - for DB integrity purposes - to have a pointer check utility available for use (@ no additional cost) similar to other IMS DB utilities like the Database Image Copy ut...
about 2 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

WCA4Z and zOpenDebug plugins do not work well together

If they are both installed in VScode when you create debug profile the WCA4Z registion screen startup getting the focus . Everytime an action in the debug profile view is done. This is very anoying
10 days ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Submitted

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ZOAU zIIP eligibility

We're using Python on Z and ansible-collections/ibm_zos_core with zoau under the hood for increasingly large portions of our z/OS CI workload.While Python, in which ibm_zos_core written, is zIIP eligible, we suspect that zoau's modules are not (ou...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
3 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Additional time options for Not Started Alert/Action at operation level

Not Started Alert feature at job level, allows to define a specific day and time to request an Alert or an Action for those operations that didn’t start within that time. This feature could be improved adding the possibility to select as time opti...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Trackinglist - Call Sequence Report: create a filter to ommit Orphan Transactions groups

-Trackinglist with callseq parameter: The purpose of the call sequence report we seek is to discover the flow of transactions that are being executed in our system. At this time, we would like to see only complete paths/flows in this report and no...
2 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
6 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration