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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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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

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

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

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

Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
7 months ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

Issue alert/warning message when PS reaches limit

Dear support, We've suffered quite a lot situations that when parallel server limit of a workstation was reached the jobs scheduled to run on that workstations were pending submission with status "Submit in progress". But we couldn't see a warning...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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
13 days ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Submitted

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13 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Integration Test Builder for z/OS 0 Submitted

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