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Pinned ideas

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` ...

All ideas

Default editor assignment for *.* files when LPEX editor is obsolete

Once the LPEX editor is removed from IDz, there should be a default editor assigned for *.* files (example Text Editor IBM).
about 7 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Add support to Test Copy Manager and LCP for virtual SGC environment in GDPS 4-site and external Test environment.

This solution is required for customers wishing to keep their SGC in a virtual layout, but also want to take advantage of spinning up testing external to their ha/dr resiliency 4-site environment.
about 9 hours ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Embedding gradle plugins in the Designer image

As you can see in TS022940654 we have a problem with the Designer that forces us to connect/disconnect the VPN to be able to make a buld of the project and later test the API. The problem would be avoided if the image with which the container is c...
6 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Provide possibility to limit to limit or stop the creation of excessive connections in CDP

We experienced an incident in which excessive TCP/IP storage consumption disrupted TCP/IP processing across the sysplex while CDP was creating an unlimited number of connections. CDP does not issue a specific SYSOUT message that can be used to tri...
6 days ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

Allow 4 to 5 sysplexes to be managed by a GSMPlex

Reduces the number of K systems required to manage a large scale ecosystem.
4 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

TABR Enhancement: Track Restore/Recovery Activity for ADARUN, MCR00010, GVEXPORT and ADRDSSU with Audit Reporting

Add restore/recovery tracking and reporting capability in TABR for the following utilities: ADARUN MCR00010 GVEXPORT ADRDSSU Restore information to capture For each restore/recovery execution, capture and store: Inp...
about 5 hours ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 0 Submitted

Improve Remote Copybook Resolution Performance for RSEAPI Profiles in IBM Z Open Editor

IBM Z Open Editor running in VS Code exhibits a slower performance when resolving remote COBOL copybooks while using a Zowe profile configured with RSE API.  The issue is particularly noticeable when the SYSLIB section of the zapp.yaml contai...
about 5 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Submitted

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1 day ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Submitted

Document DBB zBuilder Git repository details in build report

Assuming the zBuilder configuration files are stored in a git repository, documenting the repo details and hash change values provide build engineering teams the ability to evaluate the status of the repo at the time of the build.  Adding the...
1 day ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted