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Core Infrastructure

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Enabling of a rest service/https support to use OAM functions

Enhancement of OAM by enabling rest service support for customers to use OAM functions
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

make z/OS FTP does support MLSD

z/OS FTP does not support MLSD, therefore, in Filzilla and other FTP clients, files with more than 99 exdents are not displayed in the file list, with MLSD this would be possible
8 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

CSSMTP comply with AUTH by rfc4954

Need to include the AUTH command on CSSMTP component on zOS TCPIP and zVM TCPIP in order to comply with the rfc4954
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 12 Future consideration
118 VOTE

Add ability for RACDCERT to handle multiple subject alternative names

Currently, RACDCERT list will only show the first altname for a certificate. Certificates can often have many other altnames, and that information can be difficult to obtain. Also, RACDCERT can only generate certificates with one altname, when man...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 11 Future consideration

Provide the ability for DSS to be able to scratch and reallocate an in use (ENQed) dataset that is not the actual dataset in use during a logical copy operation.

System programmers who maintain indirectly cataloged datasets on a maintenance sysres / sysres set that gets cloned to an IPLable sysres set.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration

SMP/E Root CA certificate change request

Current IBM SMP/E Root certificate, DigiCert Global Root CA, is using weak SHA1 algorithm. We are working on replacing all certificates using SHA1 with much more secure SHA256. Many vendors already switched their SMP/E client certificates to use ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the syscall readfile to understand file codepage

Currently readfile only appears to understand files that are tagged with IBM-1047. Files tagged with ISO8859-1 are returned by readfile without translation and are thus unreadable on the EBCDIC platform. readfile is a powerful tool for the rexx de...
2 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

OAM recycle function should work similar to recycle in DFSMShsm

Hello,we're user of OAM and HSM for many years. We also have 16 VTS clusters in use.Of course, we also use the logical worm for our tapes.We'd like to have a more effective way (as HSM has) to recycle OAM tapes. With HSM we use HSEND recy ex all p...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

Support the use of underscores in URIs

Our customer's web administrators often generate names with underscores in their URI/URL. I was told this is not supported because underscores are not defined as being part of hostnames. Yet, we're talking about URIs, not hostnames. As per IETF RF...
24 days ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Future consideration

selecting tape volumes to be recycled, or excluded from recycle process, by sms tape storage group

Today's DFHSM RECYCLE command allows to include/exclude volumes by volser range, or volser list, or tape residence. It would be nice to have an option to select volumes using the sms tape STORAGEGROUP as criterion. This would help in keeping to se...
24 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Submitted

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