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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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Handling of EXEC CICS HANDLE AID and HANDLE CONDITION statements

To enable a fully functioning refactoring process, it would be good to get the HANDLE AID and HANDLE CONDITION statements. Currently these are not handles and no warning or notification is presented advising this so the responsibility of on the us...
12 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Please improve IZPCA Cognos framework to allow selection of PLEX wide aggregation metrics instead of unique LPAR/Server mode

Please improve IZPCA Cognos framework to allow selection of PLEX wide aggregation metrics instead of unique LPAR/Server mode The IZPCA Cognos framework do not work well for PLEXable components/environments. Our users would like a way to summarize ...
13 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Request FastPath solution pack to support ZIIP processor

Customers use FP solution pack to run routine jobs like 'Pointer Checker report' , usually consume a lot of IO and CPU time if there are many DBs. If workload can offload to ZIIP processor, it should relief CPU constrain and shorten job execution ...
about 1 month ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / All components 0 Planned for future release

If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Automated collection of disk capacity data from GPDS - Maybe by writing entries to SMF.

In GDPS today we have a brilliant function to show the current DS8K pool usage related to capacity. GDPS panel named VPCPLCS6 and VPCPLCS7) Showing numbers for usable capacity, provisioned capacity, SGC used, SGC provisioned and much more.The pane...
10 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

Notify or automatically withdraw LCP RECOVER background copy when it ends

Forgetting to ENDCOPY results in eventually running out of SGC captures since the captures involved in the RECOVER remain locked and can't be . Ideally, there would be an additional parameter to specify an automatic ENDCOPY when the background cop...
10 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Need to increase the size of the formatted columns from the existing limit of 6 to something much greater such as 15 or user defined

Today when create a report for things such as TOTAL DL/I calls over a several hour period the column is returned in scientific format if the return value exceeds 6 digits.For example, returned as: 4.4228E+08. This makes reading the report via diff...
13 days ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

We need the record definition and the table for smf type 87.

We need SMF TYPE 87 record data to keep a track on conversion from RESERVE to GLOBAL ENQ. This is a key metrics and we would like this to be the part of healthcheck dashboard. This is also recommended by IBM and we need this to be part of IzPCA
13 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Enterprise COBOL z/OS: Implement TYPEDEF and TYPE

I would like to see TYPEDEF and TYPE implemented in Enterprise COBOL on z/OS similar to how it is implemented in Enterprise COBOL x86 and defined in the COBOL ISO standard. TYPEDEF and TYPE provided additional tools for writing structured COBOL an...
14 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Support for User-defined functions in programs utilizing SQL

At the moment it is not possible to compile a COBOL module using "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" and EXEC SQL. This severely limits the usability of "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" in system which uses SQL/DB2 as the ...
14 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

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