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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 ...
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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Use more than one NIC (bond) to provide different customer networks to the same IM cluster

Infrastructure Management (IM) was designed to provide an enterprise-grade private cloud experience on IBM Z and LinuxONE platforms. While the solution offers robust multi-tenancy capabilities at the software level, there is currently a limitation...
about 16 hours ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE 0 Submitted

Please allow us to put a SCOPE for datastream sourcetype=zOS-zSecure

see case TS023020753
1 day ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

ODE Extraction Utility: Allow creation of a Monoplex image from an extraction system running in a Sysplex environment

Background and Current Problem IBM Test Accelerator for Z (TAZ) On-Demand Environments (ODE) provides the Extraction Utility, which extracts volume information — including the SYSRES — from an on-premises z/OS environment and uses it to provision ...
2 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

Add Dual Control Support to iZBR

IBM Z Backup Resiliency (IZBR) currently provides the ability to specify a single ID for SGC access to LCP. Many environments will use LCP dual control, which requires two IDs. The current IZBR configuration does not provide a mechanism to configu...
about 12 hours ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Submitted

Enable iZBR to Support Multiple SGC Repositories

Enhance iZBR to support multiple SGC backup repositories in the 3D Katalog. SGC virtual isolation environments are not limited to a single SGC backup repository but iZBR currently only allows for connection to a single repository. For environments...
about 12 hours ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Submitted

Enable iZBR to Support Multiple SGC Repositories

Enhance iZBR to support multiple SGC backup repositories in the 3D Katalog. SGC virtual isolation environments are not limited to a single SGC backup repository but iZBR currently only allows for connection to a single repository. For environments...
about 12 hours ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Submitted

GDPS Reports Management: Support centralised report dataset definitions via parmlib rather than manual configuration in each NetView domain

The GDPS Reports Management (panel VPCPRPTM) currently requires the report output datasets to be configured manually in each NetView domain in each system. Please provide support for defining these report datasets through a parmlib member or anoth...
about 18 hours ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

When making a mistake or typo logging on it loses previous logon user name information? Would like Intellimagic to retain logon user name information

Why is it useful? Time is wasted retyping full Intellimagic Logon username Who would benefit? All customers How Should It Work? As described previously
1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Require the capability to report on LPAR Service Class CPU Utilization, MIPS or MSU with selecting z axis "LPAR Maximum Processor Count for each interval"

Why is this useful? When selecting LPAR overall CPU Utilization there is an option to select "LPAR Max Processor #" for  secondary z axis in "Edit Report".  However, when reporting LPAR by Service Class there is only overall CPC Processo...
1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Please add application grouping capability to SCRT data and web reporting in Intellimagic

This would bring SCRT reporting in line with all other reporting in Intellimagic.
1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted