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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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Preserving the VSAM datasets available in IzTA's memory even after an IPL

Currently, there is a need to load the VSAM datasets to the IzTA in-memory table every time the system is IPL'd, and the workaround is to set up a quasi-automated process to load the same. Customers would be interested to have those processes happ...
9 months ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Future consideration

ADDI Impact analysis report not scrollable

Impact analysis report is not scrollable - Customer has to click on arrows to see the report..
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Integration z/OSMF – System Automation: Registered provisioned instances to System Automation

We are currently making the first steps in automating the provisioning of z/OS middleware such as Broker, MQ, CICS, DB2. As part of the provisioning we would like to be able to register provisioned middleware instances (started tasks, subsystems) ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
9 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Auto reroute of shadows from z/OS to Primary MDM and BMDM on failover

Any shadows from z/OS to LINUX MDMs have to be manually rerouted from Primary to Secondary even if the applications operations have auto resart and auto reroute set on them.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support ability to compare a current segment layout field with a previous segment layout field.

File Manager supports creating templates that map segmented records. A segmented record is one where different portions of the record are mapped with different layouts. The template has to know how to identify which possible segment layouts apply ...
9 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Need a reliable means to identify all tapes associated with a given dump

If a dump spans more than one tape, you must include all tape numbers on the dump post processing request to obtain the complete dump. If you do not include all tape numbers, the post processing will complete with abend code 2999. Although a tape ...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

improved monitoring: more messages and quicker

current monitoring does not show all errors, and sometimes shows errors that have been corrected. Monitoring should also be quicker - status of compute nodes should have enough priority to show problems in near-real-time.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Improved storage usage when using moves to change encodings

We are using the functions display-of and national-of to dynamically change between encodings. Like this: MOVE FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF ( FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF ( INPUT-DATA (1:INPUT-LENGTH), CHARSET-CCSID), 277) TO OUTPUT-DATA (1:EXPECTED-OUTPUT-LENGTH)...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

Automatable IPL Complete messages (ING313/4/5)

The IPL Complete messages (ING313/4/5) are issued with DescCode 13 set, which means they cannot be trapped in the automation table. We therefore cannot alert them to our operators without defining additional rules - use MRT to remove DescCode 13.I...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

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