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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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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

Report that analyzes the behavior of CICS Workload when changing from one LPAR A to another LPAR B (with different capacity) and if this LPAR B supports this new workload (if the LPAR B does not support it, the report should indicate what changes need to be made to the LPAR B to support the CICS Workload)

We received this request from management because it would help in evaluating the renewal of the contract with IBM.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter, instead of having to hardcode the dataset name: In the JCL: //DDIN DD DSN=XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ,DISP=SHR In the Python code: datasets.read('//DDIN') instead of: da...
5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Needs more information

Enable session timeout longer than 999 seconds for e3270 UI

It would be beneficial to set a session timeout longer than 999 seconds (such as 30 minutes) to satisfy audit requirements on our site.
4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

ZOAU interface with SDSF

Just as with REXX one can use the SDSF REXX API to access any/all information from SDSF so should ZOAU be able to do the same. There is so much information available via SDSF that could be useful to the ZOAU user.
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Needs more information

PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Full support of SMF102 data

CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
9 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
9 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

IPLTYPE, set via IPLTYPE script statement, is not propagated to the KG-Sys

When setting the IPLTYPE/-MODE on the KG-Sys this is also promoted to the (LCP) R-Sys. The other way around this is not the case. So setting the IPLTYPE on the R-Sys is NOT propagated to the KG-Sys. In normal situations this is not a real issue. B...
9 months ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration