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Provide user exit points for some commands in FTP server & client.

It would be beneficial for customers that use source code managers to provide user exit points at certain points in command processing. For example, by allowing a server LIST, RETR, or STOR command to access an API or insert a SUBSYS= value for a ...
2 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

How can we detect all list of RACROUTE calls with LOG=NONE for all codes of IBM on OMVS? Is there any way to find out list of RACROUTE calls with LOG=NONE and fix them?

We have focused on why violations on IBM USS side sometimes are not logged . Our Security team have asked this question to support of our ESM (External Security Manager) product. They advised us to contact with you to fix those issues for the U...
3 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Improve the ISPF performance when listing/accessing a USS directory with a lot of files

The list or access to a USS directory containing a lot of files consumes a huge amount of CPU. The same CPU sonsumption is observed in Java programs accessing the directory
4 days ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 0 Submitted

DFSMStvs have a hard upper limit set in PARMLIB that cannot be overridden by JCL

Currently the TVSAMCOM in PARMLIB can be overridden by including TVSAMCOM=(n,n) on the JCL EXEC statement. in our case, we've had a couple of instances where an application did not take the default set in PARMLIB and flooded the CF and SMSVSAM wit...
5 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Submitted

zOSMF - Data Set and File Search enhancement for data type

This new feature is very useful and handy to scroll through large members and files. However, when allocating a new file in USS it should be possible to provide the file format in which the file is allocated like UTF-8 or ASCII. Additionally the c...
6 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

We need remove the limitation on AIX for the VSAM

My client has larger Index they are not able to accommodate all the index in VSAM if we increase the AIX limitation more then 32,768 it will help the client
6 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 0 Submitted

Add Certificate Information to TLS command

When updating our certificates in our environment we would use a packet trace to confirm that our certificate updates occurred. This method worked since in TLS 1.2 and earlier the Server Hello would have the certificate in visible in the flow. How...
9 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ADD HEALTH CHECKER FOR IOS RECOVERY

There are IECIOSxx settings that would be helpful for reducing the recovery time of Channel Path errors.However, unless you are aware of them, they do no good. there are 100's of parameter settings and as IBM discovers best practices, adding IBM H...
11 days ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Submitted

SDSF ISFLOG REXX requirement

While searching the string in SYSLOG using ISFLOG there is option to print the Matching Lines and subsequent lines to the Matching String (by using isflinelim ). I would like to introduce a new feature to Print Previous Lines of the matching String .
11 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Submitted

Allow user to update config of SSH CLI container for security-related control

Currently, for the SSH CLI container embedded in zCX address space, users are not allowed to update any parms for the SSH server and this will only pick the default Openssh configs for its execution, meaning clients are allowed to use some old and...
11 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Submitted

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