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    System SSL first capture doc

    When ever there is an issue with SYSTEM SSL and we have a failure we always need to do a recreate of the issue or get more tracing. It would be better if we can get some type of first failure documentation through SMF records when an error occurs.
    about 15 hours ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 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 12 hours ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Submitted

    RMF 74.1 should be updated to allow a simple association between related primary and secondary I/Os

    When CRS (Consistent Read from Secondary) is activated, RMF data cannot be used to accurately report on the z/OS online I/O activity. Secondary read I/Os are performed to offline devices and there is no possibility of easily associating the origin...
    15 days ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 0 Future consideration

    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...
    2 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

    Monitoring Initial Size of Coupling Facility Structures

    It was noticed a problem during a Coupling Facility outage when was necessary to move structures from one CF to another CF. The rebuild/recovery process was not completed sucessfully because the INITSIZE of a WMQ Structure was smaller than the req...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Under review

    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.
    3 days ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 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...
    3 days ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Submitted

    Optimization output naviquest batch ACBJBARD and ACBJBAXV

    We need a optimization output naviquest batch report ACBJBARD (Invokes ACBQBAR7 for dataset) and ACBJBAXV(Invokes ACBQBAR6 for DASD volume report). Currently, in job outputs the space values are left-aligned, and the information may be shown in KB...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 1 Future consideration

    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...
    30 days ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 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...
    13 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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