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z/OS

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Add a last login timestamp attribute for z/OS LDAP.

The z/OS LDAP server would be greatly enhanced by including a password policy operational attribute called pwdLastLogin which contains a dated timestamp of the last time an entry has logged in to the server.
28 days ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

GDKU0013I Add local name is DD:LOCAL

Hello, The objective is to have the name of the files transferred to the bucket (endpoint / Data_source / Data in object storage), without having to go to DEBUG with GDKU0013I With level(debug) DEBUG: DD:LOCAL is DataSet: true, name: FILE.NAME DEB...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Planned for future release

Pervasive Encryption feature to enable PDSE, but exclude LOADLIBS (which cannot be encrypted).

We cannot enable PE for our PDSE libraries, as there is has been no method to exclude LOADLIBs, which become unusable when encrypted with PE. This prevents us from enabling encryptions for PDSE files that could contain confidential or restricted d...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Planned for future release

A full PDSE dataset should be able to delete members without needing additional DASD space

We currently have a large SMP/E SMPPTS PDSE dataset which is full on a volume with only 5 available cylinders. Attempts to delete a member from the PDSE result in a E37-04 abend because the system is trying to get an additional extent. The dataset...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Planned for future release

Add an additional parameter for CBRUXSAE (OAM Security exit) to get the Db2 SSID or name of OAM system

Currently, we've the requirement to setup a Multiple-OAM Environment. This have to be done for some application restore tests. Currently, our OAM Security exit checks RACF for the access rights to the collections (the RACF ressources are the colle...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Planned for future release

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Planned for future release

Add Azure Support for CDA

We would like support in z/OS 2.4 to transfer data to and from MS Azure file and blob storage.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Planned for future release

Enhance CDA for Signed Payload and Improve Tracing

The Provider files do not currently have the parms needed to support SIGNED Payload, currently it's only support "UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD" to use a signed payload we need to enhance CDA. Currently there is no tracing until the TOOLKIT is called as that i...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Planned for future release

DSS should support all functions for the cloud too

Within HSM I recognized that DSS is not migrating some datasets to the cloud because of its limitations. In my case: ADR600E, RC=7, The data set is a VSAM data set where the high used RBA equals the high allocated HBA. First I thought it's an erro...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Planned for future release

RMM z/OSMF Plug-in setting

I'm missing a possibility to customize the name of the REXX library containing the REXX procedure used by the plug-in. The plug-in expect that the SYS1. SEDGEXE1 exist and is available. In our installation we do a merge of some common libraries – ...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Planned for future release