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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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    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...
    3 days 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.
    3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Submitted

    Update Data Source to allow for Tape History

    Related to IBM Case - TS023071838.  Tape reports are created monthly for the client, but when trying to go back to a specific date and time, it was determined that information wasn't being retained, thus making the point-in-time request impos...
    about 8 hours ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

    .ini file include/copy file for common data, like common classpath specifications.

    .ini file include/copy file for common data, like classpath. We have 500+ CTG's for various test environments. To change a simple value, like adding a classpath, need to edit all .ini files. A include file, like z/OS Connect (zCEE) server.xml. <...
    about 14 hours ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

    Data Receiver improvement for z/OS

    We started using DR on Z and came across few items which would help it improve When we start or check status using script, it says DR is not active even through it is working. Incorrect message create confusion and can lead to other issue. Reque...
    about 16 hours ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

    SA Info Broker: Provide automatic expiry and removal of stale cached events

    SA Info Broker currently caches events when they cannot be delivered to the target, for example during a Kafka outage or connectivity issue. When connectivity is restored, cached events may subsequently be forwarded even if they are no longer oper...
    about 18 hours ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

    Allow SA Info Broker to distribute events across multiple Kafka partitions

    During stress testing of our SA Info Broker → Kafka → Dynatrace integration, we have observed event traffic being concentrated on a single Kafka partition, despite the topic having multiple partitions. The SA Info Broker trace also reports: key=SA...
    1 day ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

    CICS DFHCSDUP utility with an INSTALL option.

    Since a significant number of our clients use the DFHCSDUP utility for maintenance, having an INSTALL option for CEDA resources would be highly practical; it would eliminate the need to use SDSF batch as an additional step during RDO/DFHCSD mainte...
    15 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Under review

    Dynamic Workload Console: Add SSL connection for DB2 z/OS database

    Today it is not supported to run dbsslconnection true for DB2Z database for the DWC and I would like it to be added. Dynamic Workload Console installation - dwcinst script - IBM Documentation --dbsslconnection true | false Enables or disables the ...
    11 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0

    being able to have LOGForwarder option to collect ONLYSYSPLEX data

    today, LOGForwarder with option -l/L , you can select LPAR datastreams or LPAR and Sysplex Groups, it would be useful if we could have an option to collect ONLY sysplex groups datastreams
    12 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

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