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Core Infrastructure

Enhancement to Cancel/Purge Job Groups command

Following migration of JES3 to JES2, our legacy DJC network jobs are converted into JES2 Job Groups (JGs). Currently, we see no usable Age filter or selection criteria to cancel/purge JGs that are incomplete and still considered “running”. The Age...
1 day ago in z/OS / JES2 Submitted

IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS PGP preference lists update

The default preference lists for PGP include deprecated algorithms. In some cases is it the first option. Suggestion is to remove deprecated algorithms form the default list or change the order of the list.
2 days ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility Submitted

ICSF: Emit dedicated SMF records for NEW master key register state changes

Business Justification Security monitoring solutions such as zSecure Alert depend on SMF data to detect important cryptographic administration activities. Although ICSF provides auditing for numerous cryptographic events, installations would benef...
2 days ago in z/OS / ICSF Submitted

Allow RACF Containment to support RACF subplexes

We have a sysplex with > 1 RACF sublexes. there may be many customers who have a similar use case where they would rather limit containment within the data sharing group and not XSYS. Since ENF is used to route the event across the entire syspl...
12 days ago in z/OS / RACF Submitted

Please Upgrade z/OS 3.1 & 3.2 to OpenSSH 9.9 or better, to support post-quantum algorithms sntrup761x25519-sha512 and mlkem768x25519-sha256

This would make SSH Server on z/OS more secure and prevent "store now, decrypt later" attacks. Thanks!
12 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

Allow adding certificates directly from unix files

This would make adding Lets Encrypt Certificates much simpler - Currently we must; - Copy certificates to files on OMVS - Translate from iso8859-1 to ebcdic ibm1047 - Allocate VB259 format PS data sets - Copy (as text) the files to the data sets -...
14 days ago in z/OS / RACF Submitted

OBROWSE for ASCII files

OVIEW command will convert ASCII or UTF-8 files into something readable. Modify OBROWSE to do the same. Ishell and Unix Directory List (UDLIST) have the same issue. These should also be fixed. ISPF view (option 1) with "Browse mode" flag selected ...
14 days ago in z/OS / USS Submitted

JES2 POLICY: We need the value of node when using /*ROUTE XEQ node or /*XEQ node in our JCL

To convert 5 JES2 exits to a JES2 policy, we need the value of node when using /*ROUTE XEQ node or /*XEQ node in our JCL.The JES2 policy attribute ExecNode contains the resolved node, not the nodename as entered on /*ROUTE XEQ node or /*XEQ node i...
20 days ago in z/OS / JES2 Submitted

CDA Alternate credentials and Provider file

The CDA panel, GDKAUTHP has an option to enter Alternate Credentials in the key file. However, it HSM does not use this Alternate Credential. This creates a single point of failure where CDA is completely dependent on one account, if the password ...
20 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Submitted

Make Console Dump capture zIIP-eligible, enable dump processing BOOST capability, add dedicated real storage for Dump Services.

Are you tired of reading partial dumps from customers? Well we are tired of capturing them, and we're tired of them taking a whole minute to complete. I would like to see dump processing run outside the normal GP workload dispatching, possibly on ...
24 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids Submitted

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