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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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Dynamic Courier Scaling

Currently the out of the box implementation enables 3 couriers in the zAPM container, although up to 50 couriers can be used per container. IBM do not offer any information on what a courier can handle in terms of ASID (Address Space Identifier) c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Planned for future release

navigate to remote system data sets from local projects

It would be great to navigate to remote data sets from a local JCL. Nowadays with all the projects migrating to git, all our projects are local, and of course, all our JCLs are local. For that reason, we would need to navigate with ctrl click in a...
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

Allow SCOPE=SYSTEM on sysplex wide ENQ

Allow the application to control whether a SYSPLEX ENQ call is SCOPE=SYSTEM vs SCOPE=SYSTEMS. This could be on the API call itself, or more likely on the ENQMODEL definition.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Console on Z : Make the report path (dwc_workarea) configurable

We'd like to have the report path (dwc_workarea) variable configurable to avoid ICH408I message at the start of the STC (insufficient authority to create /reports directory)The report path is actually a fix path set to /reports. Our site configura...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Bypass DFHH0414 Health Check for a CMAS

In CICS/TS v6.1 section "Setting up a CICSPlex SM address space (CMAS)" the manual : XCMD=NO : For a CMAS you must specify NO for CICS commands. But after the v6.1 CMAS is started, there is a DFHH0414 message in health check IBMCICS/CICS_REGION_CO...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

API to add annotations to components

Today, we can only add annotations to components using the AD Analyze client. Having an API for annotations will help enrich the data captured from source code with data that is maintained outside of the source code like Application name, supporti...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Spark method to more easily use datasets

There is no simple way to feed dataset data into Spark through the shell which is a common method of invoking Spark. A function should be developed or a script made available that would be an official IBM method to use datasets with Spark.
5 months ago in IBM Z Platform for Apache Spark 2 Future consideration

Logging IMS record x'56FA' on SMF

Our customer Unicredit is going to implement IBM IzPCA product that gets in near real time the SMF records created by almost all system software products running on Z. The only important subsystem that cannot be managed in such a way is IMS. We wo...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

CICS Liberty Profile support on zAPM Connect

zAPM is commonly deployed in our environment for end-to-end transaction tracking from frontend to mainframe application including CICS & MQ related. However currently there is no support for JAVA application in CICS Liberty Profile which limit...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 2 Future consideration

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