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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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IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under 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...
10 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...
11 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

Cobol Json Parse / Json Generate not reversible when working with Numeric Edited Fields

Hello, I would like to mention again 2 old Cases from me (TS010652468 and TS016864176), because the problem happened again with another Developer. Can you please check the last Case (TS016864176), where some discussion took place and IBM decided t...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to the Cobol/JCL Editors

1) The following functions are available when using the Cobol/JCL Editor however they are not accessible from the context editor when right clicking on the source. Please make these functions available in the context menu of the Cobol/JCL Editor s...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

ZOAU zIIP eligibility

We're using Python on Z and ansible-collections/ibm_zos_core with zoau under the hood for increasingly large portions of our z/OS CI workload.While Python, in which ibm_zos_core written, is zIIP eligible, we suspect that zoau's modules are not (ou...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

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...
10 months ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

Store the active IPLType/-mode at time of LCP capture

For the IPL of our production systems we have 2 IPL-sets, the A- and B-set. Every xx weeks we apply maintenance on the inactive set and then IPL from that set. When performing an IPL of the CVE, of one of the LCP captures, we need to know what was...
10 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

Be able to use ZIIP feature with Log Data Manager.

IZPCA Log Data Manager feature is an ISPF/TSO application which needs to be coded in a special way in order to allow the caller environment to use Ziip processors. To avoid this inconvenience BATCH environment calling DRLPLC should be used instead...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

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