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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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    Add in RLIM the TDQ resource

    Added resource on TDQ queue write in resource limiting for automatic kill task cancellation when threshold is exceeded
    about 7 hours ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Submitted

    CEEROPT ENVAR=(('NLSPATH=should accept path coded in USSHOME SYSIN Parm .

    Hi, We have a customized CEEROPT module where i am using ENVAR=(('NLSPATH=/usr/lpp/cics/cicsts61.. , I am upgrading the CICS to CICSTS6.3 now i am reassembling it with parm ENVAR=(('NLSPATH=/usr/lpp/cics/cicsts63.. , as per the current setup CEERO...
    2 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

    We suggest that VTAM startup process continues even if one major node with error couldn't work properly.

    During an IPL, VTAM stopped the initialization when it found a node syntax error at ATCCONxx member. In this case, the error occurs on the last node that was with a comma by mistake. My suggestion is if there is a syntax error and you get the 'ERR...
    9 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

    Add columns to KPMZ_WORKLOAD tables to support WLM Analysis

    Please add the following columns to the KPMZ_WORKLOAD_T & KPMZ_WORKLOAD_D tables TCB_SEC SRB_SEC RCT_SEC IIT_SEC HST_SEC TOTAL_USING_SAMPES IDLE_DELAY UNKNOWN_DELAY TOTAL_DELAY_BATCH MPL_DELAY PRIVATE_PGIN_DLY SWAPIN_DELAY COMMON_PGIN_DELAY CP...
    about 9 hours ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

    Keep track of which package an artifact is in

    We have a requirement that we should be able to deliver a release of an application to an empty runtime or verify if the runtime is correctly filled with a certain release. DBB keeps track of build results and build maps. However, none of those in...
    about 13 hours ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

    Exclude CICS Region id surrogate check for CICSDFLT.DFHTRM surrogate profile in CICS TS 6.3

    With CICS TS 6.3, a new DFHTRMID security rule check is performed during region logon for the CICS default user ID CICSDFLT, validating DFHTRMID surrogate access to the region ID. Since both are CICS IDs and the check occurs as part of the logon p...
    3 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

    Pass LPAR names in Instana spans to make it possible to differentiate Application flows between UAT and PROD environment in case they use the same CICS region names and CICS transaction names

    In environments where IBM Z Application Performance Management (Z APM Connect via Z Observability Connect) is used with Instana, customers often operate multiple environments such as UAT and PROD with identical CICS region names, CICS transaction ...
    9 days ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 0 Under review

    File manager Service provider for zosConnect

    We have installed file manager service provider for zosConnect But it only works in openAPI2 We would appreciate to have this useful service in openAPI3 as it is the standard now Thanks
    9 days ago in File Manager for z/OS 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...
    28 days ago in IMS System Services / All components 0 Under review

    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 11 Not under consideration

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