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IDz version in the application logs

We need to know which version of the IBM Developer for ZOS is using each developer of our organization. Our question is if any of the application logs are writing this information. We are using this Audit Data:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/explorer-...
2 months ago in z/OS Explorer 0 Under review

Enhance PCOMM to properly allow for usage of TLS 1.3 in TN3270 sessions

usage of TLS 1.3 will allow for current and future users to utilize this newer more secure level of TLS. At present, based on TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) Support in IBM Personal Communications (PCOMM), you are saying that PCOMM is dependent...
22 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Under review

Python module for BCPii

We are close to ending 2024, and writing HTTP requests in ASM, C/C++, REXX is a massive crutch.One can imagine how something that is meant to be a last resort (client web enablement toolkit) has become the norm, out of sheer resistance to introduc...
2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0 Under review

z/OS Ansible Collection zos_operator: add a wrapper for the opercmd 'console' parameter

The 'console' parameter for the opercmd shell command and python API allow us to specify a suffix for the EMCS console name that is generated. I need this functionality to be exposed in the zos_operator module.
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Under review

Add a new DISPLAY for CLASS

Currently, one of our customers is using the IMS command /STO CLASS CLASS# to stop the transaction execution in one of the IMSs in the PLEX environment. However, there is only one command to investigate the CLASS situation /DIS STATUS CLASS, and i...
2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

enter only Sessid on cmd line

I have to always add this functionality to the menu when doing migrations.
28 days ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 1 Under review

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` ...
2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 0 Under review

Please add Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to IZPCA Tables

We have multiple time zone LPARs. We would like to be able to work with a common time (UTC) so that data from LPARs with different time zones can be aligned correctly.
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Under review

Silent printing using Print API

The ability to print a document(s) received using the print API without having the user to use the print preview on their browser for each document sent. current applicative solution is a pop-up window on the client side browser holding the HTML c...
about 1 month ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

.NET Core+ versions of EntireX DLLs

Microsoft has been clear for sometime that .NET Core and beyond is where their support for the .NET platform lies now. The .NET versions of the EntireX runtimes have languished in .NET Framework with no sign of .NET Core support. If you're serious...
about 1 month ago in EntireX 2 Under review