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Core Infrastructure

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Provide additional restriction to using IDCAMS DELETE 'XYZ.**' MASK

Protect data environment from unintenational data loss
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 4 Not under consideration

Display Line Number When CLISTs Terminate Due to an Error

Display the line number when a runtime CLIST error occurs. An example would be when a substr error occurs.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Stack affinity

When using z/OSMF to send diagnostic data we are not able to specify an IP-stack for the FTP send process.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Allow Auditing by RACF Group

Allow auditing by RACF group. I need to audit accesses made by a specific RACF group.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF console plugin showing locked status in console tab

If lock is pressed for the console. The locked status is only displayed at the overview tab but we would need such an information in the console tab preventing a timeout situation.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add PIPELINING support in CSSMTP

The SMTP PIPELINING FUNCTION can increase the performance of transmitting SMTP mails to the remote SMTP Server (MTA). Especially in cases where a large number of mails have to be transmitted. CSSMTP does not support the SMTP PIPELINING function.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

The z/OS FTP Client needs to support the RFC2817 "http connect"  protocol

We are using a shared proxy infrastructure for http and ftp. The firewall's in front of the proxys are enabled to forward secure pro...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SET symbol value concatenation with lowercase and special characters

Simplify the syntax around creating USS paths by combining JCL SET symbols.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks Currently this is not supported as outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.icha700/spfgac.htm, but would lead to expanded use of GLOBAL entries to standard...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Resolver resilience (routing to the DNS) needs to be improved

I opened a case with IBM where OSNMPD was building .boots files with the Loopback address inside instead of the Stack Static VIPA. It turns out that the Resolver was unable at that point during startup to obtain a route to the DNS and just gave up...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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