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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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TWS/OPC scheduler manual load to ADDI without AD Connect

Hi, We have applications on 2 Mainframe LPARs. On one LPAR we have CA7 scheduler while on another LPAR we have OPC scheduler. We do not have AD connect as request for security enhancement on AD connect as per our requirement is pending with IBM si...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Real-time audit record in CDP files EQQCDPx

During IWS BatchOps daily work, they need to perform a lot MCP activities. Especially when there is a test prior to new application release and onborad new applications/LPARs such as Hold/Release/NOP/UNNOP/other thousands of jobs in TWS applicatio...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add affected service and IMS system to IMS Service Provider error messages in z/OS Connect

As of today when an IMS transaction service in z/OS Connect runs into a problem because the invoked transaction abends, doesn't respond in time or is stopped respectively the transaction cannot be invoked because of unsufficient authorization, z/O...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add ability to pass settings for System SSL environment variables

Due to an ever changing security landscape, we need the ability within CICS to be able to set environment variables for the instance of System SSL running within the regions. This will allow us to control all aspects of the security requirements t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

The ASM shortage recovery must not depend on sysplex automation

In certain cases, the sysplex automation is turned off when some systems in a physical sysplex (not only SAplex) can't answer to commands sent at the SA initialization. It is visible when the common global variable AOF.0ROUTEFAILED si set to 'Y'. ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to determine if any CICS transactions have debug session active

Currently there is no way to query if any CICS transaction have debug sessions active
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Show the days before expiration or the expiration date in the Cloud Dataset Display

In the display of the cloud dataset (panel choice 3 of the ISPF interface) there are a lot of information but not the expiration date or the days before expiration of each listed dataset. To know this data you need to run the expiration utility ba...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Possibility to specify two EQAUOPTS datasets in eqaprof.env

Copied from case: Hello, I'm setting up STC EQAPROF and was wondering if you could specify more than one pattern in the variable default_dsname. At the moment it looks like this:default_dsname="É&USERID.DLAYDBG.EQAUOPTS" We would like it to be...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.

Please enhance IDz so that it applies updates automatically.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration