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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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The max value (65535) of Network OCC IDs is too small in huge environments

We run into dataloss situations when the usage of NetWork OCC IDs is 100%. We are monitoring the EQQMC03I message and we got this event very often at night before we schedule a daily planning job (e.g. CP Replan). In a situation when we have to av...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Sample SCLM RAM need to handle SCLM type extensions

Why it is useful? - The current sample SCLM RAM does not work with type extension and to make it work, a lot of customizations are required for the repository access manager in order to connect to SCLM from IDz. If this change is implemented, the ...
19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 0 Submitted

Add MacOS support for locally installed client

We need MacOS support for the HoD locally installed client as part of our mainframe community work with MacOS.
19 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 0 Submitted

Include User Name and Mapped User ID details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to filter z/OS Connect API Provider metrics on my ODP dashboard based on the User Name and Mapped User ID of requests. This will allow us to gain insights into usage across different distributed applicatio...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

Include HTTP Return Codes details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect Site Reliability Engineer, I want to be able to view request HTTP Return Codes for z/OS Connect APIs in the ODP datasets. Today, I can see a "count" metric of HTTP Error Codes, but not the actual Error Codes. This will allow me, ...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

Include z/OS Connect HTTP Header details in metrics published to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to view header details, such as Correlation ID, in the z/OS Connect Request data that is sent to Omegamon Data Provider. This will allow me to add filters to my dashboards to view specific requests, using ...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Not under consideration

Notification of Scenarios not catered for

We identified that the the refactoring process doesn't handle EXEC CICS HANDLE AID or HANDLE CONDITION, but tis was only identified when manually reviewing the refactored code. While I appreciate there will be a number of scenarios that can't curr...
10 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Handling of EXEC CICS HANDLE AID and HANDLE CONDITION statements

To enable a fully functioning refactoring process, it would be good to get the HANDLE AID and HANDLE CONDITION statements. Currently these are not handles and no warning or notification is presented advising this so the responsibility of on the us...
10 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Please improve IZPCA Cognos framework to allow selection of PLEX wide aggregation metrics instead of unique LPAR/Server mode

Please improve IZPCA Cognos framework to allow selection of PLEX wide aggregation metrics instead of unique LPAR/Server mode The IZPCA Cognos framework do not work well for PLEXable components/environments. Our users would like a way to summarize ...
11 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Add ability to update JCL created by UnitTest task

The generated JCL from the task creates a temporary file that doesn't use the ${HLQ} variable that all the other datasets use. Instead, it uses &SYSUID as the HLQ for the dataset. Given that multiple builds could be running concurrently with t...
2 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

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