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PINNED Liberty z/OS - identity propagation for ctg - Case sensitivity issue
I would like to request to give Liberty z/OS a new property to upper case user IDs. WebSphere traditional sends the user IDs always in upper letters and while migrating the applications to Liberty z/OS, we are facing problems when the user log in ...
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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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    Support for IBM JES2 Output Class Compress feature in CDP

    Because of limitation of the IBM zCDP Log Forwarder, Customer cannot fully used IBM JES2 Output Class Compress feature to reduce Spool usage in their environment. At the moment they need to use uncompressed Output Classes for Outputs that need to ...
    2 days ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

    Multiple scripts execution at the same time

    Hello, it is not possible to launch 2 scripts at the same time , we have to wait the end of the execution of the first script started to execute a new script. It will be good to permit the parallel execution of the scripts. For example, when we a ...
    3 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    CSAPSB pool avg for all IMS resources in ACBGEN

    When an ACB gen is run, it generates the pool size(e.g. CSAPSB) for an individual program(resource) . What we would like to see is when we run the ACBGEN, we would like to see the cumulative pool sizes once all the resources are genned. This would...
    9 days ago in IMS System Services / All components 0 Submitted

    WAPL - ALLDEPS function

    Due to changing scheduling and changing requirements it would be a plus to be able to query ALLDEPS for a certain operation in the CP, perhaps up until a certain nesting level to keep performance impact limited. This can be a full list of all depe...
    1 day ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

    Add VSAM KSDS collect like ESDS

    Like Generic VSAM Cluster data - IBM Documentation, will be nice to add VSAM KSDS support
    4 days ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

    IBM Z Resource Discovery Visualization Service - Should be ported to z/CX as a Docker image

    Currently, the IBM Z Resource Discovery Visualization Service is deployed on the x86 platform. We would like to request that the Discovery Visualization Service be made available as a Docker container image that can be deployed on z/CX. Enabling d...
    13 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Submitted

    Implement a BMS map editor/viewer

    Costumer is interested in have a VS Code based BMS map editor, so they can do the same edits they are able to do on Eclipse. Costumer is moving to VS Code and needs the tool to have at least the same capabilities as Eclipse based IDE.
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 10 Under review

    Support Inbound HTTP Request Body decompression in z/TPF HTTP Server for REST API or application logic

    Enhancement to the z/TPF HTTP server to natively support decompression of inbound HTTP request bodies when the Content-Encoding header is set to gzip or deflate. The implementation should leverage existing z/TPF hardware‑accelerated compression ca...
    1 day ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Submitted

    CICS uses WLMHEALTH on shutdown to gently quiesce a region before commencing shutdown

    Although CICS shutdown sets WLMHEALTH to 0 at shutdown, there is still a window where multiple transactions can be started in the region and abend with message DFHAC2007. A more gradual WLMHEALTH shutdown (using the SIT parm) and then a configurab...
    1 day ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

    Create and maintain an IBM-supported fork of PyInstaller with z/OS support, bundled with IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python, to enable standalone executable creation on mainframe systems.

    IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python lacks a critical capability available on other platforms: the ability to create standalone executables. PyInstaller currently supports Windows, Linux (x86/x64/ARM), and macOS but lacks support for IBM z/OS mainfr...
    4 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0 Submitted

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