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Ability for the plug in to leverage the sysplex distributor for the DDVIPA to determine when a systems is up

We currently have a case with IBM open on this and is effecting our production systems. If you reach out to me, i will share the case number. Not wanting to put that in the IDEA When shutting down an LPAR in a plex, and is removed by the TCPIP LEA...
about 22 hours ago in z/OS / HTTP Server 0 Submitted

OAM: Allow global defaults in CBROAMxx PARMLIB member

There are parameters in CBROAMxx that have to be specified for each Storagegroup individually. For us, that means 1068 lines of PARMLIB definition which are the same for each Storagegroup. In times of simplification, it should be possible to defin...
1 day ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Submitted

PFS UDS MAXSOCKETS for AF_UNIX

Currently, our application development department is using the C syslog() API to send logs to SYSLOGD. SYSLOGD forwards these messages to another syslog server which puts the data into Splunk. During our load and performance test, we hit the barri...
about 3 hours ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Submitted

Clear SSL session ID for specific port and/or IP address

Hi IBM development team, We have been requested to clear the SSL Session ID in the session cache (GSKSRVR). The server certificates are updated every year and our operations team would like to confirm if new certificates are used immediately after...
12 days ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Under review

Be able to configure the AI framework without giving authorizations to improper user

Today it is not possible to run the workflows with the same user that is supposed to run the AI Framework. Instead you have to set up an interactive user with higher authority than any other user in the system and run the workflow. After that all ...
1 day ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Submitted

Split 31/64 Bit environments create 2 enclaves both think they own //SYSOUT and over-write each other when writing //SYSOUT to Disk DataSet. //SYSOUT needs to be owned by the initiating Enclave only.

With the need to go to the 64-bit Java JNI for storage reasons, three of our customers all write //SYSOUT from some jobs to Disk. From Discussions with IBM both with Tickets: TS019872641 (COBOL) – closed - Low Severity, Question on JCL/JES //SYSOU...
2 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 Submitted

Add Functionality to access EzNOSQL JSON Documents thru TCP/IP from distributed systems (outside z/OS systems)

EzNOSQL would be a nice and useful product, when JSON documents on z/OS would be accessable from "outside" z/OS out of the box i.e. thru a JDBC driver and /or open systems python libraries.
9 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Submitted

Extend the z/OSMF Parmlib Syntax Validation REST API with an additional parameter to specify the z/OS release of the selected Parmlib.

This feature is needed to successfully check Parmlibs of older z/OS versions. Some Parmlib parameters are z/OS release specific and would fail a syntax check of another release. This property should be taken into account by the REST interface. You...
14 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Make File template content non editable during perform step time in a zosmf workflow

In Production environments we would like the JCL content to be non-editable during step perform time in a zosmf workflow. This would help us enforce controls on the JCL content not being altered in a Production environment
3 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

LIST of PTFs APPLIED after a specific year

Hi Team, I hope you are doing well. I am trying to generate a list of PTFs that were applied after a specific time period(for example, after 24.040). Could you please advise what the correct SMPCNTL commands would be to extract this information? I...
7 days ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration