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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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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

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

Full Hyperswap Support for IDAA on z/OS (SSC)

In discussions when preparing to start out PoC for IDAA on z/OS GDPS Support, it was shared that Hyperswap is not fully supported in SSC like a z/OS LPAR, and it takes an actual outage because the IDAA instance needs to be restarted after the swap...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 14 Planned for future release

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...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

DBB CLI - Added output formatting option

Hi, The transition from DBB v1 to DBB V2 resulted in the disappearance of the Web Application, and the provision of a command line to manage the metadatastrore. The command line does not provide the same services as the Web Application: you nee...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Integration in the SMF_099 record definition (SRM/WLM) of information related to SubType 14 (HiperDispatch Topology) and load them in a new KPMZ table

Integration in the SMF_099 record definition (SRM/WLM) of information related to SubType 14 (HiperDispatch Topology). This will let us get information on the processor Topology of each LPAR and their evolution to better follow & understand var...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 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

Update CEGN transaction to support Password Phrases

CICS has a sample "Good night" transaction called CEGN that is intended for juse if a region is configured to allow users to be timed out after a period of inactivity. However it only prompts for a password not pass phrase so is not in keeping wit...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

we have a large project with about 8.000 cobol sources. Trying to make software analyzer baseline crashes with java memory errors. Make it possible to create baseline for big projects

We want to make a baseline for the entire project so we can use this baseline for analysing cobol sources and do not get all problems over and over again.
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 0 Under review