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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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Multiple dependencies in DWC Plan View

I would like to suggest that the 'Plan View' functionality for DWC on z/OS gets improved.Today when it's used and you search for a specific job stream or application, the Plan View only shows one level of predecessors.The only way to see an entire...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Dynamicaly request the usage value of Network OCC IDs

We are monitoring the EQQMC03I message and this is not a seldom event in our environment. So we want to monitor the usage of the NWK OCC IDs value.
27 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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...
27 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 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 ...
4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

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

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...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 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...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
5 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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