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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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Support square brackets expressions for REXX MATCH() function

We need to match system application names containing a small list of characters at a specific position: IM\d[PS]CTLThis would give us the possibility the differ between our 2 production environments and our 5 development environments. A normal wil...
8 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Remote Connection Emulator - Screen Size 62x160

Screen size 62x160 has been support by other emulators such as Host Emulator and HOD. Most of our workstations have large screens. With 62x160 setup, we can view so much more of mainframe data in 1 screen than scrolling right and down. There are p...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Provide facility to recover a subset of LCP (Safeguard) volumes

Currently LCP (Logical Corruption Protection) "recovery sets" are managed as a single entity collection of volumes and the recovery process handles them as a complete set. This enhancement would allow definition of a subset of the full recovery se...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Enhance testing capability of SYSPLEX RESOURCES

We have a test environment for GDPS/Metro that is contained within one physical disk subsystem. The TEST=YES option is used in the GEOPARM to tolerate this setup. We would like this TEST=YES feature extended to accommodate the SYSPLEX RESOURCE MAN...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

ingrchck needs to be updated to work with AUTWRK assignments

INGRCHCK halts the current shutdown commands of the task it was invoked for. The issue we are encountering is that if the task it is waiting for is running on the same autwrk tasks then the second task might not be able to shutdown as the commands...
5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Exploit 64-bit addressing mode in zWS

We would like to request the implementation of 64-bit addressing mode for zWS to avoid potential S878 storage-related abends. Our current production zWS controller has a very large and complex batch schedule with a high frequency rate of updates. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Ability to disable mouse scroll wheel

We have users that are accidentally hitting the mouse wheel and it deleted data have entered into the current screen. They do not use the wheel function and would prefer to disable it.
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

Add CPSMOBJ resource to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records

Hi Team,Request is to add CPSMOBJ to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records.Adding CPSMOBJ will help us to monitor if any exposure to CPSM objects or CICS resources through CMAS.
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Quiesce CICS before shutdown

CICS no longer quiesces TCPIPServices as part of SHUTDOWN, which caused a large number of connected clients to terminate when CICS was shutdown. For this RFE we are asking for a more graceful shutdown option.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

GDPS/Metro 4.2- No need of any contextual validation? when View command used for a Script

When we select a script with view we clearly indicate that we do not intent to launch the script
over 4 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration