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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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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.
about 2 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

A new option of DFS3CATQ GET for removing metadata

We'd like to request a new option of IMS Catalog API (DFS3CATQ FUNC=GET, FORMAT=DBDLIB, MBR=xxxxxx) to exclude a extended fields table for metadata from an output DBD. Metadata is not needed for IMS database reorganization. In the IMS Catalog API ...
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

Support for Connect:Direct statistics

Currently there is no way to gather IBM Connect:Direct statistics records, like the TCP/FTP functionality.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Authentication for BuildClient/BuildClientConfiguration

Hi Moving BuildClient & BuildClientConfiguration from ADDI server to "normal" windows client is possible but it's not possible then to control access to BuildClient. Wish to add authentication/authorization to BuildClient/BuildClientConfigurat...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Possibility to export all components from AD project exploration tab(for each resource type)

Hello In existing AD versions, there is no feature to export all listed components from the project exploration tab. For certain business cases, there is a need to export all components as-is from that list into the different doc as it displays bo...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

enhance the command IMBRCST to allow complex conditions

Today the command IMBRCST allows or conditions to specify the receivers of the brodcast. In HAO implementations you must define more than one condition to address the users that you want to inform. For example: You have configured a HAO solution w...
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Special Report Option for Overrides needed

Hello IBM,we need a additional Policy Database report, to find and identify our used AT OVERRIDES in the PolicyDB on a easy way. For migrations and optimization measures of our PolicyDB, we use currently the "Full Policy Database Report" to find a...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Option to disable automatic file association.

Provide an option to disable the automatic file association that is done when opening a file that does not meet any z/OS File Mapping criteria. Since the PMR ID field above doesn't accept the new TS ID format, here it is: TS002715273
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 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...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Panel INGKYRQ3 does not show all attributes of the vote

When viewing the details of the Vote on panel INGKYRQ3 it does not show all the information provided by the requestor. Such as the a) Timeout overridesb) Precheck overridesc) Interrupt overrides These values are provide from panel INGKYRU2 from th...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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