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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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All ideas

    Allow 4 to 5 sysplexes to be managed by a GSMPlex

    Reduces the number of K systems required to manage a large scale ecosystem.
    2 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    Embedding gradle plugins in the Designer image

    As you can see in TS022940654 we have a problem with the Designer that forces us to connect/disconnect the VPN to be able to make a buld of the project and later test the API. The problem would be avoided if the image with which the container is c...
    4 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

    Provide possibility to limit to limit or stop the creation of excessive connections in CDP

    We experienced an incident in which excessive TCP/IP storage consumption disrupted TCP/IP processing across the sysplex while CDP was creating an unlimited number of connections. CDP does not issue a specific SYSOUT message that can be used to tri...
    5 days ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

    Make the IDz JCL Outline terminate an in-stream PROC scope at a valid PEND statement

    Request Enhance the JCL Editor Outline in IBM Developer for z/OS so that a valid PEND statement terminates the current in-stream procedure scope in the Outline structure. Statements following PEND should be displayed at the enclosing job level unl...
    2 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    Base64 functions should be able to take a extra parameter for USAGE(BASE64(STD)) or USAGE(BASE64(URL)) instead of only from compiler option.

    The PL/1 build in BASE64 functions uses compiler options BASE64(STD) / BASE64(URL) to control the encoding in regards to padding and the chars used. When creating a common include member that contains a base64 function it therefore relies on the c...
    3 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    Add a "STRICT" option to the "NOLAXDCL" option

    NOLAXDCL(STRICT) should disallow all implicit and contextual declarations EVEN for BUILTINs and for files SYSIN and SYSPRINT, giving as a minimum an "I" type message, although I would prefer an "E" type message. 
    about 6 hours ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Submitted

    An alternative is needed for <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> - not suitable for production like environment

      Customer is only deploying whole WAR files and not individual artifacts from the WAR files, such as JAR or CLASS files. Originally, the intention of `autoExpand="true"` on WebSphere Liberty was as follows: <quote> The main advantage o...
    5 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

    Enhance "Identify Unused Variables" to recognize host variables referenced inside EXEC SQL blocks that are defined in the WORKING-STORAGE

    'The Refactor → Identify Unused Variables' feature falsely reports COBOL variables as unused when they are only referenced as DB2 SQL host variables inside an EXEC SQL DECLARE CURSOR block in the WORKING-STORAGE. This happens because the scan is l...
    6 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    ODE Extraction Utility: Allow creation of a Monoplex image from an extraction system running in a Sysplex environment

    Background and Current Problem IBM Test Accelerator for Z (TAZ) On-Demand Environments (ODE) provides the Extraction Utility, which extracts volume information — including the SYSRES — from an on-premises z/OS environment and uses it to provision ...
    11 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

    Unloading XDeps from zWS Version 10.2 via WAPL must include the new field 'Resolution Criteria'

    Unloading XDeps from zWS Version 10.2 SPE3 via WAPL is incomplete: the new field 'Resolution Criteria' is missing in output. This must be implemented to have a full/complete WAPL functionality.
    6 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

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