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Add signature algorithm and key type fields to OpenSSH SMF 119 subtype's common security section

Please consider adding two more fields to the OpenSSH common security section used in the SMF 119 OpenSSH subtypes. The fields would pertain to public key user authentication, specifically: Public key type used (RSA, ED25519, ECDSA, etc.) and sign...
18 days ago in z/OS / OpenSSH Submitted

Remove usage restrictions for Dynamic System Variable &SEQ

We have a situation where we need to use &SEQ to provide uniqueness in dataset name used in the SYSMDUMP DD. To collect dumps, we have coded the SYSMDUMP in our Application WLM Procs. When we do a WLM refresh, if multiple WLM Application envir...
18 days ago in z/OS / General Submitted

Enhance Shell CP utility to create immutable load module copies

The z/OS UNIX CP command when copying a load module from a data set to a data set does not create an immutable copy. The resulting copy differs from the original source load module which can be seen using SuperC, this is because cp calls the binde...
4 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Submitted

Enable ADRDSSU to copy ZFS files >4GB from SMS to non-SMS environment

With zOS V3.2 it may be possible that USS ROOT file grows to a size >4GB which requires VSAM attribute EXT-ADDR. For SMS datasets also the EXTENDED attribute is requred. At this time ADRDSSU isn't able to copy (using COPY or DUMP/RESTORE) to co...
about 20 hours ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS Submitted

Enhance IOS Channel Path Recovery to Detect and Isolate Persistently Degraded Paths

The current IOS channel path recovery mechanism is effective at detecting and recovering from channel path failures based on qualifying error thresholds within a configured time interval. However, there are scenarios in which a channel path may re...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS Submitted

Add persistent store-and-forward buffering for remote SYSLOGD destinations

Problem description: The z/OS SYSLOGD currently provides only in-memory buffering for messages forwarded to remote syslog destinations over TCP. When a remote collector becomes unavailable for an extended period, the internal queue can become exha...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

Persistent Pause support DISTPAUSE/DISTRESUME for EXTTARG

Our requirement is not simply to prevent traffic from being distributed until the zCX server and the Sysplex Distributor listener servers are active. We need the zCX instance to become an eligible target for workload distribution only when the com...
27 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

HMC extract in JSON format using BCPII

We need to have a view of the HMC config to compare and do some statistics.
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii Submitted

Add jobname/userid to BPXP005I messages

Currently, when the BPXP005I message is issued, there is no indication of the originating job name or user ID. As a result, system programmers must manually investigate to determine which user or job is generating the message, significantly slowin...
5 months ago in z/OS / USS Submitted

Limitating Installation History in .policy files under USS

For Users that like to configure their Network with z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant, this would be useful. The History in the backing store of z/OSMF can be limitet to a certan amount you want or you can leave it be and everything will be s...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Submitted

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