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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` ...
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...
about 15 hours 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.
about 20 hours ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

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

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 ...
14 minutes 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 1 hour 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...
about 17 hours 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

Forward/Move all messages in queue

Add option for take action menu for queues to move or forward all messages in queue. Similar to purge that we have.
2 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Submitted

Report Client Statistics ECITIMEOUT client specified value - for new CTG 10.1 feature

Report Client Statistics ECITIMEOUT value and the number of timeouts per Statistics Interval. Currently, shown are: cmTimeout, wtTimeout, idleTimeout, ecitimeout, can override the IPCONN specified ecitimout=0, providing the client value. Client re...
3 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted