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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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    Force Complete Action in IZWS: Confirmation on Warning Availability

    Current State : In Control-M, when a Force Complete action is performed on a job, a confirmation pop-up is displayed, prompting the user to proceed by selecting Yes or No . In IZWS, however, a job can be Force Completed without any confirmation wa...
    about 10 hours ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

    Add a Operations view for displaying UOW information

    Explorer is not showing UOW information from table unit of work (UOW). For this information we need to switch to the WUI or run rexx scripts to read the UOW table. Can you please add a view to display this information.
    about 14 hours ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 0 Submitted

    Observability Configuration Change Impact Simulator and Telemetry Coverage Validation for IBM Z Observability Connect

    I propose adding an Observability Configuration Change Impact Simulator and Telemetry Coverage Validation capability to IBM Z Observability Connect to help administrators understand the potential effects of observability configuration changes befo...
    about 18 hours ago in IBM Z Observability Connect 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...
    18 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    Use VSAM system managed buffers (SMB) instead of LSR to reduce the CPU consumption by the controller task by around 40%

    zWS has used   LSR (local shared resources) for some of its VSAM files for decades, but recent analysis by the VSAM and PERFORMANCE teams related to a customer case indicated that there could be significant CPU savings if SMB were implemented...
    4 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

    CEX5126E enhancement to include IP address

    Currently, when investigating authentication failures, support teams must manually review CEX logs to determine the source IP address associated with the failed login attempt. Including the client IP address directly in message CEX5126E would sign...
    3 days ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Please extend limit of 256 threads, to be registered in parallel within a process (ERXRegister)

    Dear EntireX Team, the limit to register 256 threads in parallel also applies in the latest version of EntireX (12.1.0) (for C applications/ERXRegister): we expect that this limit of 256 threads in parallel within a process, will soon become a bot...
    4 days ago in EntireX 0 Submitted

    Allow for long term transaction history on DASD as well as short term history in dataspace

    We have a requirement to have task history around for  a significant period of time  (hours). We have task history going to history datasets which are large. Across the plex, this makes viewing / searching transaction history  horri...
    10 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    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

    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

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