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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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Automated collection of disk capacity data from GPDS - Maybe by writing entries to SMF.

In GDPS today we have a brilliant function to show the current DS8K pool usage related to capacity. GDPS panel named VPCPLCS6 and VPCPLCS7) Showing numbers for usable capacity, provisioned capacity, SGC used, SGC provisioned and much more.The pane...
7 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

SA-internal command HSAET32 should generate a meaningful error message in the event of a problem.

If an SA/NetView is restarted, all HSAET32 are rebuilt and this is logged with ON in netlog. Sometimes this doesn't work and the checker returns a "HSAET32 status ended, RC=1007". so what's the problem? In our case we have some trouble with the ...
3 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
about 2 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Add High Water Mark indicator of a Storage Group or a Volume in ZPCA tables

High Water Mark indicator will be useful for our stockage team to find out if a Storage Group or a Volume is big enough.
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

In XTDOUT exits I would like to have access to the array of segment address/length pairs of all segments for multi-segment TD messages on the first invocation of the exit.

When the first segment of a multi-segment TD message arrived in my XTDOUT exit I can see in the dump that there's an array with pointers to each segment followed by the length of the segment. All segments appear to also be there even though it the...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

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

Please provide means for CSQLIGHT/DRLSLOGP to enrich log with SYSPLEX_NAME, MVS_SYSTEM_ID and even IMS_CTRL_REGION

The COLLECT CSQ for IMS depends on the IMS_SYSTEM_NAMES lookup table. However, any shop having the same IMS_SYSTEM_IDs on all their SYSPLEX environments (PROD/QUAL/DEV) have to manually set the SYSPLEX_NAME, MVS_SYSTEM_ID, IMS_CTRL_REGION making i...
12 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 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.
4 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

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