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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 ...
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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Support IzWS virtual workstations in SAO

The workstation-sao-api should support modifying IzWS virtual workstations as well. Currently, only computer automatic workstations are supported. Using virtual workstations however is state of the art for IzWS installations and thus should be sup...
2 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Enhance DBB User Build to wait for COBOL language server readiness after VS Code reload

Scenario After launching (or relaunching) VS Code, we open a simple “Hello World” COBOL batch program in IBM Z Open Editor. If we run DBB user build (or run DBB user build with full upload) immediately, the build aborts with the error below. If we...
2 days ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Submitted

Bidirectional Hebrew support for z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0

At the moment bidirectional (BIDI) Hebrew support is only available for CICS API providers running in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.There is a critical need of BIDI support for (CICS) API providers and requesters in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0, as otherwise...
1 day ago in z/OS 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...
7 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

There is a requirement for both monthly or comparing two different days to understand which CEC, LPAR or Service Class workloads is driving the increased or decreased CPU, MIPS or MSU consumption

Why is it useful? Currently we manually program & report two different periods to understand which detailed level of workload is driving the increase or decrease that takes time. Intellimagic having this very important, common and repeatable ...
1 day ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Capture QJSTCDDS for CDDS

  Capture  QJSTCDDS                    TOTAL NUMBER OF CDDS ACCESS REQUESTSto measure CPU saving   on  CDDS  -DB2 
2 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support IBM MQ Service Provider in z/OS Connect V3.0 (OpenAPI 3.0)

Currently, z/OS Connect V3.0 supports OpenAPI 3.0, but it lacks the native IBM MQ Service Provider that was available in z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition V2.0 (OpenAPI 2.0). Many enterprise sites rely heavily on z/OS Connect to expose mainframe MQ-...
2 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

Update TCPALVER field to better reflect SERVER_ENCRYPT

Currently there are 2 fields for TCPALVER in the DSNZPARM Authorization, RLF, and DDF Parameters panel under AUTH/RLF/DDF in the DSNTIP5-DDF 2 block - TCP/IP Already Verified (TCPALVER) and Extended Option for TCPALVER. If Db2 TCPALVER is set to S...
7 days ago in Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 0 Submitted

STIG Rule RACF-ZO-000010 not working because we use different names for procs, we need a new member IZUPROC

Our procs for zosmf are as follow : ZOSMFANG ZOSMF But zSecure is expecting IZUANG& and IZUSRV1 so the check is not working. Coudl you create a member called IZUPROC where we could describe the procedure names that we use in our bank ?
8 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Submitted

CICSPlex SM Web User Interface - Search in menu

When using CICSPlex SM Web User Interface it is difficult to get to the specific menu. According to its documentation there is a translation for views and their description. It would be more easy having a search option where queries can be typed i...
10 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Submitted