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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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    INGDYN with Db2 backend is unfinished feature

    Db2 has been introduced as backend of the INGDYN. Since we don't have OMVS file sharing the SA database will not work with HA. This is why we started to use Db2 as backend for INGDYN. Everything worked so far, until a reIPL has happened. Even havi...
    1 day ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Submitted

    Create situation for ABENDCODE TEP´s Portal or Grafana GUI

    We have 3 clients in Central America and there are more than 10 CICS partitions in use. The type of alarm or situation that needs to be created is based on Abend codes; search for a code and when it appears, trigger a situation. Currently, we have...
    about 23 hours ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    z/OS guest under z/VM should hyperswap the same as anything else under z/VM; zLinux for example

    In the current implementation with z/OS guests not hyperswapping with z/VM limits the production use of z/OS guests. Removing this limitation would extend and enhance z/VM.
    1 day ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    Hide the "one-click" link that assigns the obsolete LPEX editor to 4 extensions in IDz "Preferences"

    Like many of your customers, we have taken note of the fact that LPEX is no longer a maintained editor : we have worked hard to assign as many different types and extensions as possible to other more suitable (and maintained) editors. However, we ...
    about 7 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Dynamically switch between Global Mirror and Metro Mirror

    We have two remote data centers, separated 50km, with 2 Z CECs on each. We have 3 DASD copies, 2 on one DC, and 1 in the other. The key point is the GDPS MM3site Dual Leg between both data centers. During normal conditions, our production workload...
    about 14 hours ago in GDPS 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.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 10 Under review

    Process activities tagged as always in the scenario with beginAt

    Today, the beginAt option ignores even activities/actions/steps that are tagged as "always". When using the include_vars building block is required to dynamically load the deployment configuration, this must be processed. The idea is to * process ...
    about 11 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Submitted

    Introduce a scope in zapp.yaml property group definitions

    With today's schema of the property group configuration, the search paths are applied for the entire language and cannot be scoped to specific files or folders. Applications may require scopes of where the property groups configuration can be appl...
    about 5 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Support OMEGAMON data for IMV input

    Please add the support to collect OMEGAMON data as the input data for IntelliMagic Vision. OMEGAMON for IMS ... Our customer has already OMEGAMON for IMS and IMS PA is not necessary to analyze the problem additionally. OMEGAMON for z/OS ... Ou...
    about 13 hours ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Display CICS transaction counts by either their response times or CPU times.

    Looking for transactions that may need to be tuned. By CICS transaction, we would like to see how many transactions fell into certain thresholds. For example, display all Transaction IDs that had response times over 10 seconds yesterday, and inclu...
    1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

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