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System SSL HTTP CRL request should understand all valid HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol responses

At the moment System SSL describes the following requirement:"System SSL uses the HTTP/1.1 protocol to send the HTTP CRL request and requires an HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol response.The HTTP response must include a valid content-length field tha...
4 months ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
6 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - signature failure

When using RECSIGN and ARECSIGN to sign the records and validate them afterwards and there is an error, it is not clear which of the two signatures failed. However, this is the essential/crucial point of the dual signature. I have to know if the c...
11 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - provided tokens

Currently when two tokens are provided for the validation whereas one is not valid, IFASMFDP only issues:VALIDATION FAILED: RECORDED AND SUPPLIED CRYPTO OPTIONS DO NOT MATCHbut the program would know if the SGINVALIDATE or the ASIGNVALIDATE token ...
11 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - in regards of inconsistent records

When running a Validation report for a full day and message IFA742I is issued it only tells me:VALIDATION FAILED: INCONSISTENT RECORDS - RECORDS DO NOT MATCH EXPECTED TIMES However, the day has 24h hours, split into 15min SMF interval leading to 9...
11 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

Enhance D OMVS command to show all active PARMLIB members used

At IPL time a d omvs command will display all the BPXPRMxx members used as expected. But if a t omvs=xx is issued later then the d omvs command will only report on that one BPXPRMxx and *not* the prior members which is misleading and incorrect as ...
2 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Enable ZHYPERWRITE for VSAM and VSAM-RLS in IGDSMSxx

PTF UJ92354 Following this documentation : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=performance-zhyperwrite It's said we should configure "ZHYPERWRITE=YES option was specified in the ACB or RPL.", so far I don't understand where to set this par...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration