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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.
12 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...
18 days 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...
23 days 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...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Planned for future release

Allow CBU real activation during CBU test

Allow CBU real activation during CBU test.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 6 Planned for future release

Simplify Crypto Cipher Management in HMC

Currently HMC just offers a list (in a not auto scaling window) of available ciphers without any further details to which TLS version they might belong. It would be a great simplification if I can just select that I want to use TLS1.3 and TLS1.2 a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 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...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Planned for future release

add TLS1.3 to OSA-ICC

In OSA-ICC we know that in the panel configuration option when you edit server configuration, when you check the TLS version it only goes to TLS 1.2. We have a requirement to go to TLS 1.3 or above
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Request for IEBCOPY to use Storage Above the Line(31 addressing mode)

For PDS datasets one needs to compress them on a regular basis to regain unused space. One method is to use DFSMSdss compress which will invoke IEBCOPY to do the compress. IEBCOPY issues a conditional getmain for control blocks and tables in stora...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF ACTIVATION involving thousands of HW changes

XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF activation On an z/OS image that did NOT issue the HW ACTIVATE-Customer observed that CPU usage for all MASTER address spaces was more than 10 CPs for the RMF Mon 3 interval just before the IOS502I message. Add...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Planned for future release

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