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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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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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    Mechanism to remove orphaned persistent FlashCopy Relationships (RemoteCopy Services) when changing Preferred Replication Leg

    If you are performing a DASD refresh/migration to new hardware using the GDPS Migration Method and have persistent FlashCopy in your environment (DB2 System Level Backup) with Incremental FlashCopy enabled. In lieu of having source application iss...
    1 day ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    include additional zERT connection detail records

    Inclusion of the additional SMF 119 subtypes 03, 11, 21, and 70 in IntelliMagic Vision would enhance our problem determination and root cause analysis capabilities by providing greater visibility into system activity and performance.
    1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

    IntelliMagic Vision should support SMF 62 and 64 records

    The request is for Intellimagic Vision to support SMF 62 (VSAM Open) and 64 (VSAM Close) records. A use case: Let's assume a VSAM file was inadvertently opened across a large group of CICS regions (by a generic batch request) where some of which m...
    about 7 hours ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Extend Hide/Move Columns and Download Report to WebUI drill-down views

    Hello, The Hide/Move Columns and Download Report functions are very useful in the zSecure WebUI panels where they are currently available. However, these functions are not available in some drill-down views. We encountered this limitation with the...
    about 11 hours ago in zSecure / zSecure Visual 0 Submitted

    Make IBM Z Open Editor compatible with other language server extensions

    Hi,  We are setting up the RSE API and other IDzEE features for the IBM VS Code extensions, which means we can roll out the IBM Z Open Editor extension for all mainframe developers to make use of its advanced capabilities for our development ...
    about 11 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Submitted

    Provide reports on VSAM RLS statistics based on record type 42 subtypes 15 through 19

    We currently lack easy insight into the performance of our VSAM RLS setup. Due to recent additional RLS cluster usage, we activated subtypes 15 through 19 and would be interested in OOTB reports on these record subtypes.
    about 12 hours ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

    IntelliMagic Vision support for Record Trace types IFCID 402, IFCID 411, IFCID 412

    To support ever-increasing DRDA activity in Db2 along with having greater transparency and reporting capabilities related to distributed connectivity to Db2, we request that you add the following IFCID traces to the metrics we can track through In...
    1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Index Reports by Value/Text in Specific Range

    Currently, we are only able to index a report by configuring ITOM to look in a specific column space. Some reports we work with are not static, they change lengths and values move, which means that the column space the tool is grabbing is not the ...
    1 day ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Under review

    Display the total backup space consumed per Safeguarded Copy capture via GDPS LCP

    Currently, backup space for a capture can only viewed at volume level (Backups Tracks in panel VPCPLCSS); the total space consumed across all volumes for a specific capture is not displayed. Furthermore, the volume-level view cannot even be export...
    2 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    Display hex characters in IDz

    The real issue is with undefined hex values for IBM-037 and it's conversion to UTF-8.   The LPEX editor has the ability to manually set (via LPEX preferences under Appearance) how you want the host character hex values to display in the LPEX ...
    2 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Needs more information

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