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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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    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...
    about 17 hours ago in z/OS Connect 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...
    about 11 hours ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    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 `...
    about 5 hours ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

    Create RPP as an extension of VSCode or Kiro

    There is a strong organizational push to move away from Eclipse and standardize on VS Code as the primary development environment. We have plugins for every everything including IDZ , EWM , DB2 Developer extension , IMS explorer , CICS explorer , ...
    about 6 hours ago in Rational Programming Patterns 0 Submitted

    Implement support for DBB USS builds that work with the Remote Error List feature of the IDz client

    Currently the Remote Error List tab in the IDz client only returns compile errors when the source file being built is stored in a MVS dataset. Compilations that take place in USS only (ie no source code in MVS datasets) will not report compile err...
    about 6 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

    multi-tenant support

    IT providers and MSPs which offer services to their clients and are interested to leverage MLz to infuse AI into their core applications need to make sure that they can offer multi-tenant support so that client A can't access any assets, informati...
    about 7 hours ago in Machine Learning for IBM z/OS 0 Submitted

    Mark images as deprecated in Glance, mark virtual machines tainted

    As made in glance for "protected" flag, that avoid users to delete from the icic gui images marked "protected", i suggest to add the "deprecated" flag to avoid users to deploy (from gui, openstack web apis and openstack cli) new virtual machines u...
    1 day ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE 0 Submitted

    Add ability to set event time via CDP COBOL, Java and REXX API

    We have a batch process that streams records collected throughout the day.  We need the ability to control the event time to have it ingested and displayed at the time the record was generated and not the time it was sent. Let's say I want to...
    2 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

    AI-Powered Intelligent JCL Error Analysis, Automated Remediation Recommendations, and Predictive Job Validation for IBM Z JCL Expert

    I propose enhancing IBM Z JCL Expert with AI-powered intelligent JCL error analysis, automated remediation recommendations, and predictive job validation capabilities to help mainframe developers and enterprise IT teams identify, understand, and r...
    2 days ago in IBM Z JCL Expert 0 Submitted

    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...
    10 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

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