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Core Infrastructure

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USS suppresses display of ICH408I RACF message in JESLOG of CICS Transaction Gateway

As per USS L2 in 78026,7TD,000: When BPXMRPWD goes through GetManagedAcee, it turns on an initacee attribute to request message suppression: IntA_Msg_Supp On Suppress messages produced while creating security context This is working as designed fr...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

strnlen.c support

strnlen.c is a widely available function in open systems/open source. Currently we have to code our way around this not being natively available in z/OS c/c++. strlen.c is available on z/OS and it would be a great enhancement for us if strnlen.c w...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration

zOSPT - Ability to refresh/synch all XML files from GUI (CP&M - Template refresh)

We were provided an "ExternalVariables.xml" file by IBM that included updates to validation variables for our environment. After we replaced the file in our USS directory we refreshed the Template via the zOSMF/PT GUI, but it did not pick up the c...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

SMP/E: Modify SMP/E select panels to process multiple selections

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0625114613User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE99205Title: SMP/E: Modify SMP/E select panels to process multiple selectionsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROU...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 3 Future consideration

EXPIRATION DATE WITHIN PERMIT COMMAND

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00031904User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GD124084013Title: EXPIRATION DATE WITHIN PERMIT COMMANDSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Arthur Fitzpatrick/P...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Enhance APIs, such as __login_applid() and __pthread_security_np() to support obtaining messgaes from the underlying RACROUTE

RACROUTE VERIFY ENVIR=CREATE provides the ability to return messages back from RACF to the caller of RACROUTE. With the introduction of Multi-Factor Authentication in 2016, these messages provide useful and in some cases essential information back...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Preserve High Level Qualifiers when BCPii issues a Dump

Do not overwrite the first parm in DYNDUMP! Default is *USERID, but if an installation has set a different HLQ, leave that HLQ alone! You can overwrite the rest of the DYNDUMP options, but NEVER the HLQ that is set.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 0 Future consideration

Request to add timeout functionality to synchronous binds

Our client would like to put a timeout parameter in on the z/OS client side and are trying to understand if that's possible. They are using GLD.SGLDHDRC(LDAP) to compile their C routine and are wondering if there is anything equivalent to the LDAP...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Provide a less FORCEful command to deallocate PFIDs.

We recently had an issue with zEDC, see TS004212422, where we needed to deallocate and allocate a PFID from use. As documented in sg24-8259, we had to use CF PFID(xxxx),OFFLINE,FORCE to deallocate the PFID. In my 40 year career, commands with FORC...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

es_ES.ISO8859-15 requested

We need locale es_ES.ISO8859-15.Many different locales are shipped with z/OS as described on ' z/OS® XL C/C++ Programming Guide', 'Compiled locales' section:http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.cbcpx01/loccomp.h...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration