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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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Add LIST CPSAI TO WAPL

WAPL supports the modification of CPSAI but not the LIST and so it is impossible for us to test the segments value in automated processes.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Canzlog Print - Need additional Option for easy use

For CANZLOG is a new PRINT option via APAR available. That was great !But after my first try to use it on the simplest way ... I failed. In our company the CANZLOG was not used only by automation admins which have know how about filters and the ma...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Please add JCL include into explore project tab

The JCL includes are loaded into the AD project, it would be good if it can be viewed in the explore project tab under the resource type drop down list. I'm aware the JCL includes can be viewed in search in files, but I had to only select JCL incl...
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

EKMF Web should support the ability to import CIPHER keys from an existing CKDS.

Given that CIPHER keys are the recommended key type for DSE, EKMF Web should fully support the ability to import these keys when they have been previously defined in a keystore.
almost 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 2 Future consideration

SQLCODE = -204 when updating System Tables.

When updating the SYSTEM table with Z Decision Support V1.9.0, the screen display was "System tables are updated successfully".However, there was a table space that failed to create, and "SQLCODE = -204" was recorded in DRLOUT. In this case, pleas...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

The GDPS shutdown process of multiple LPARs today are done in parallel, however the monitoring of the progress of each LPAR is done serially. Since the shutdown is done in parallel, the checking should also be done in parallel so if a timeout occurs the GEO288A message is issued at the time of the timeout and not serialized.

To speed up the shutdown process and be notified of potential timeouts sooner so they can be actioned.
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

SMU - add RESET (Autodown) option in Rest API

We would like to have a RESET option in the SA Rest API, as is in SMU. This RESET then resets an application to the correct state, as you do in SA with AUTODOWN.For example, if an application is STOPPED and you want it to return to the correct state.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Decisions settings in command line

We need to have decisions settings option (Build Client) in command line because we want to automated the build of projects with these decisions. This is for a hundred projects to come and the manual setting of all these projects would be too long.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Check the transfer of the source files from Local to Remote System that contain unmappable characters to EBCDIC

When using local projects to develop COBOL or PLI then files are UTF8 encoded and it is possible to add characters that cannot be mapped later on to an EBCDIC code page. Check the encoding to avoid that unmappable characters to EBCDIC are transfer...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Enhance CICS Policy to restat MQMONITOR if it abends/fails

This is in continuation for RFE 136876.Like to request to enhance CICS System policies to monitor MQMONITOR status and set it to STARTED if it abends/fails.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

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