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z/OSMF REST API for spawning UNIX shells, executing commands

Users of z/OS UNIX who are already leveraging z/OSMF REST APIs currently have two options when trying to remotely interface with z/OS UNIX: Avoid z/OSMF entirely and use SSH. This has a number of downsides, including re-authentication concerns, in...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 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

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
9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

JES2 Performance Enhancements

In order to improve the robustness of JES2 during heavy workload processing spikes, whether intentional or unintentional, we would like to make the following proposal: An AI solution for anomaly detection with corresponding definable actions Addit...
2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS sysout to access all data in an open sysout file

Currently with SDSF it is possible to view all of the data in an open sysout file. With /dsfs/sysout/.... that same open sysout file is empty. It obviously works when the job step, or job, completes as it is closed *but* when open and active that ...
7 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 4 Future 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...
3 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...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

provide ca keys for Let's encrypt “ISRG Root X1” or “ISRG Root X2” certificates.

I was working with somone who wants to use a cerificate from let's encrypt, and had a lot of work to get it to work. Having the CA public key in z/OS would be a big help.
26 days ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Simple documented configuration of passphrase complexity rules

I am familiar with IRRPHREX option. However, I would like a simpler option that is managed and displayed in SETROPTS. I don't need extensive customizability, I really only need to enforce minimum length of 15 rather than 9. I can do it with IRRPHR...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

z/OS IPL simulation

It should be very valuable to test an upcoming IPL in case of z/OS upgrade or other system parameter change. The simulation could consist of various checks for example ipl & catalog volume address verification, IPLPARM LOADxy syntax check, var...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

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