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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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Enhance CA1 Monitoring Tables with TMSINIT Status, Audit Utilization, and DSNB Utilization

Enhance OMEGAMON for Storage CA1 monitoring to provide additional operational health and capacity information within the CA1 tables. The current CA1 monitoring view is missing key information required for day-to-day operational monitoring, includi...
about 16 hours ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide Configurable Recurring CA1 Collection for Near-Real-Time Tape Monitoring

Enhance OMEGAMON for Storage to allow CA1 information to be collected on a recurring, configurable schedule, including the ability to collect data every 15 minutes. The current once-daily collection creates a significant data freshness gap for ope...
about 16 hours ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Reporting 0 Submitted

Standardize VTS Cache Capacity Reporting Between OMEGAMON AI for Storage and TS7700

Enhance OMEGAMON AI for Storage to report VTS Cache capacity metrics using base decimal (1 KB = 1,000 bytes) so the displayed values align with TS7700 MI and CACHE command output. Storage support teams compare OMEGAMON monitoring data against TS77...
about 16 hours ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Reporting 0 Submitted

Pass Mod Name to IMS via API

We have IMS transactions that currently run from MFS. These transactions expect a MOD name to be present in the IOPCB. Nothing ever specifies this value, it is received directly from the screen where the transaction is ran. We would like to specif...
about 24 hours ago in z/OS Connect 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...
6 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.
7 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 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...
19 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 ...
14 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
15 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

Require TRANSID in DB2ENTRY and automatically create DB2 transaction mappings. Eliminate manual DB2TRAN definitions to reduce duplication, administrative overhead, and DB2ENTRY/DB2TRAN conflicts.

Today, CICS requires administrators to maintain both DB2ENTRY and DB2TRAN definitions. In large environments, this frequently results in hundreds or thousands of DB2TRAN resources associated with a small number of DB2ENTRY definitions. I propose m...
26 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Under review