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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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    Require TRANSID in DB2ENTRY and automatically create DB2 transaction mappings. Eliminate manual DB2TRAN definitions to reduce duplication, administrative overhead, and DB2ENTRY/DB2TRAN conflicts.

    Today, CICS requires administrators to maintain both DB2ENTRY and DB2TRAN definitions. In large environments, this frequently results in hundreds or thousands of DB2TRAN resources associated with a small number of DB2ENTRY definitions. I propose m...
    6 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Under review

    Instead of needing to add error messages in server.xml to be converted to WTOs that SAOS390 can pick-up, issue error messages as a WTO.

    Allows the system programmer to not have to guess or administer server.xml to produce error message WTOs. Error WTOs are written to SYSLOG and SA/OS390 can take action easily.
    about 6 hours ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

    zCX containers status monitoring in Omegamon e3270ui and situations

    Currently we can't monitor zCX containers status in Omegamon, so don't know if containers goes for example into unhealthy state. Idea is to extract the container status from the docker ps command and show that status in Omegamon and create situati...
    2 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Add wildcard support to CEMT DISCARD PROGRAM, allowing batch discard of autoinstalled programs (e.g. PROGRAM(ABC*) DISCARD) to simplify troubleshooting, deployments, and problem determination in large CICS environments.

    Suggested safeguards: Require a minimum of three explicit characters before a wildcard. Reject commands such as: CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) DISCARD Prevent discard operations against IBM-supplied resources. Example: CEMT SET PROGRAM(DFH*) DISCARD Optiona...
    6 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Under review

    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...
    14 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

    Have the agent product a message when there is no active automation manager

    We recently removed the GDPS tower from zSystems Automation setup. After recycling the agent, Z Systems Automation would not initialize. There were no indicators in the log as to what the issue might be. All we saw was SA initialization starting m...
    about 3 hours ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

    Allow script filters to persist for duration of NetView session

    Sometimes, a user will go in and out of planned actions multiple times when working with GDPS. New in GDPS 4.8 is the ability to use the filter command to show specific scripts. This is a handy feature, but it would be even better if it retained t...
    about 3 hours ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    Provide a new GDPS option to optionally disable SNMP interface checking

    We were told by IBM that the SNMP interface from GDPS to the Disk subsystem was not mandatory, and that the GDPS monitors provide sufficient alerting in detecting disk related issues. Therefore we did not setup the SNMP trapping of alerts from the...
    about 3 hours ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    Suppress GDPS alerting for inactive sessions in BID(YES) GM2SITE

    We recently configured additional KG & KR domains on our GDPS GM2SITE to support the BID(YES) feature code. Alerts are constantly being produced (WTO's and SDF) for STOPPED sessions on the inactive GDPS pair of domains, and DISK MIRROR shows N...
    about 4 hours ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    Please enable batch transfer of logs for machine learning.

    Our customer requires batch transfer as a standard feature when transferring log data from z/OS to IBM Concert for Z.
    about 5 hours ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Submitted

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