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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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    An alternative is needed for <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> - not suitable for production like environment

      Customer is only deploying whole WAR files and not individual artifacts from the WAR files, such as JAR or CLASS files. Originally, the intention of `autoExpand="true"` on WebSphere Liberty was as follows: <quote> The main advantage o...
    about 6 hours ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

    Unloading XDeps from zWS Version 10.2 via WAPL must include the new field 'Resolution Criteria'

    Unloading XDeps from zWS Version 10.2 SPE3 via WAPL is incomplete: the new field 'Resolution Criteria' is missing in output. This must be implemented to have a full/complete WAPL functionality.
    about 15 hours ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

    The list returned by ISPF DEPX command should automatically update to reflect the current situation, excluding any remote shadows that have been deleted.

    The DEPX list must stay up‑to‑date so that developers and operators always see the current set of remote shadows; stale entries can lead to incorrect impact analyses and cause jobs to fail when they reference deleted datasets. Automatically filter...
    about 15 hours ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

    Enhance "Identify Unused Variables" to recognize host variables referenced inside EXEC SQL blocks that are defined in the WORKING-STORAGE

    'The Refactor → Identify Unused Variables' feature falsely reports COBOL variables as unused when they are only referenced as DB2 SQL host variables inside an EXEC SQL DECLARE CURSOR block in the WORKING-STORAGE. This happens because the scan is l...
    about 16 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Citi uses the bin/tar which is used for creating the tar files while packaging artifacts for zos deployments. It works well with most artifacts but not with zos connect based APIs as the names of these artifacts go beyond 100 chars.

    the zopentools tar is the solution to the above problem. However, CITI would like it to be part of OEF so that it can be supported
    1 day ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Submitted

    Use more than one NIC (bond) to provide different customer networks to the same IM cluster

    Infrastructure Management (IM) was designed to provide an enterprise-grade private cloud experience on IBM Z and LinuxONE platforms. While the solution offers robust multi-tenancy capabilities at the software level, there is currently a limitation...
    4 days ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE 0 Submitted

    HA for licensing server

    Both components of the licensing infrastructure (the licensing server and UIM server) require High Availability (HA) capabilities to enable zero-downtime updates for licensing software and license files.
    1 day ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

    Please allow us to put a SCOPE for datastream sourcetype=zOS-zSecure

    see case TS023020753
    5 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

    Include a SAMPLE member in SEQQSAMP to assemble the SMF exits WITHOUT using an SMPE USERMOD (this is ALREADY done for the JES2 exits)

    Many customers cannot or do not know how to use SMPE USERMODS
    3 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

    ODE Extraction Utility: Allow creation of a Monoplex image from an extraction system running in a Sysplex environment

    Background and Current Problem IBM Test Accelerator for Z (TAZ) On-Demand Environments (ODE) provides the Extraction Utility, which extracts volume information — including the SYSRES — from an on-premises z/OS environment and uses it to provision ...
    6 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

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