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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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All ideas

    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
    about 16 hours 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.
    about 4 hours 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
    4 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
    2 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 ...
    5 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

    Managing Input and Output of an Assembler Program Called from a COBOL

    We would like to see the STUB inputs and outputs be modifiable (or at least legible for outputs) in the case of unit tests on a COBOL program, when it calls a program written in the Assembler. We've had several demonstrations of the product, and t...
    25 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    Integrate RACF into OMEGAMON Web UI

    As discussed with the customer and the development team, there is a regulatory requirement to integrate RACF with the OMEGAMON Web UI. If you have any questions regarding this requirement or how the customer envisions it, please reach out to: acha...
    4 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI 0 Submitted

    Implement a BMS map editor/viewer

    Costumer is interested in have a VS Code based BMS map editor, so they can do the same edits they are able to do on Eclipse. Costumer is moving to VS Code and needs the tool to have at least the same capabilities as Eclipse based IDE.
    9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 11 Not under consideration

    Support installation of Omegamon Web UI on RedHat Openshift

    Due to corporate security policies, many clients cannot implement the OMEGAMON WebUI using Docker or Podman; consequently, the only option available to them, being both secure and approved, is Red Hat OpenShift.
    3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON Web UI 0 Submitted

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