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    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

    Allow multiple validation criteria for String type Variables (Type and Length at a time)

    1) Problem Statement (Current Limitation)Today, z/OSMF variable validation for String type supports either: Type-based validation (Validators like DSNAME, DSQUAL,ALPHA etc.), orLength-based validation (minLength, maxLength), …but not both simultan...
    27 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

    OAM should be fully initialized before issuing CBR3660A

    In a disaster recovery test scenario when tape resources is less compared to the production environment, CBR3660A indicates threshold is breached, System Automation cannot use CBR3660A because it is issued before OAM is fully initialized.
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Not under consideration

    Support for multiple DNS, IP and EMAIL fields in RACDCERT GENCERT

    Why is it useful? This is not just useful—it is absolutely essential for DB2 data sharing environments that run secure JDBC connections with the following settings: enableSysplexWLB=TRUE sslConnection=TRUE sslClientHostnameValidation=TRUE (default...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    Support for multiple DNS, IP and EMAIL fields in RACDCERT GENCERT

    Why is it useful? This is not just useful—it is absolutely essential for DB2 data sharing environments that run secure JDBC connections with the following settings: enableSysplexWLB=TRUE sslConnection=TRUE sslClientHostnameValidation=TRUE (default...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Create a command that will permit do a clean up and force the PORTNAME

    We have two environments that share the same OSA card, but they were codified with different PORTNAME, then when the first came up, a PORTNAME was defined, when the second came up, it don't work because it was using a different PORTNAME. The solut...
    3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

    Allow pattern characters in ISPF member selection list FILTER command

    The ISPF member selection list FILTER primary command allows only a trailing wildcard such as: FILTER NAME EQ LOAD* This enhancement would permit leading, middle pattern characters, both of: * (asterisk) : zero or more characters % (percent sign) ...
    3 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

    Need Protected ids to support passtickets

    To use passtickets the RACF id must NOT be protected. This makes those RACF ids vulnerable to password revocation denial of service attacks.
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    IODF report in CSV format

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    3 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Not under consideration

    RACF to use SYS1.RACFDB ( read only) and User.racfdb (R/W)

    I use zD&T( or zPDT) to provide my z/OS system. Every 6 months there is an updated version of ADCD (turn key z/OS solution) available with new catalog, and new RACF database etc. To migrate to this I have to find all the changes I made to my c...
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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