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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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RFE: Binary Data Field Mapping Support in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3 Designer

Background The zosConnect-2.0 API Toolkit (Eclipse-based) provides a per-field "Code page conversion" checkbox in the Edit Field wizard for each CHAR-type service field, allowing developers to selectively suppress EBCDIC-to-UTF-8 character code co...
5 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

CREATE a CTG message that indicates the gradual increase/decrease of health status

In the CICS TRANSACTION GATEWAY the message CTG6421W is issued when the health value drops to 0. When CTG's health is recovered automatically, health status reaches 100. The only way to see the health percentage is executed the command `...
4 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

Mirroring - Extending the maximum allowable hostname length

This RFC requests extending the maximum allowable hostname length for the Federator initialization parameters (MIRROPTS). The current limitation of 52 characters prevents compliance with enterprise Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) naming standar...
5 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance the FPA Reload Analyze function to use 64 bit storage with PTRCHKLVL=FULL

When specifying PTRCHKLVL=FULL, Reload Analyze fails with message HFPU3040E, insufficient storage. Specifying PTRCHKLVL=QUICK is successful. HFPMAIN0 is in system parmlib SMFLIMxx to get a maximum of 2G of above the line storage when specifying RE...
about 5 hours ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

ability to throttle netview tasks to prevent resource consumption

The Netview Address space currently sits at a System dispatching priority it is set this way to be able to perform system recovery in the event of a detected issue. Along with system recovery actions there are also other non critical automations t...
about 6 hours ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Submitted

Activate SSO using SPNEGO with Kerberos authentication in HATS.

We would like to activate SSO for our HATS project. Currently, we are using HATS 9.6 with RDI 9.6, and SPNEGO has already been enabled in WebSphere (WAS). Additionally, the Kerberos setup has been completed on our system. Or let us know if there i...
about 8 hours ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 0 Submitted

Full TLS 1.3 support (right now some part of the product still use TLS 1.2)

needed for quantum-safe readiness.
about 19 hours ago in Machine Learning for IBM z/OS 0 Submitted

Additional Descriptor Fields

enhanced user-friendliness
1 day ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

Alternate User ID for Initial Dialog

Cross Company access or Company Merges or different naming concepts
1 day ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

IBM Concert for Z: Intelligent Mainframe Workload Scheduling Conflict Prediction and Cross-System Resource Contention Prevention

I would like to propose an enhancement to IBM Concert for Z that introduces Intelligent Mainframe Workload Scheduling Conflict Prediction and Cross-System Resource Contention Prevention. Modern IBM Z environments support numerous mission-critical ...
1 day ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Submitted