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Core Infrastructure

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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

Simple nested JSON index navigating

It would be nice to locate an entry nested within JSON by passing a string qualifying steps to get to it. For example for JSON: {"name": "My Object", "history":[ {"type":"Edit", "user":{"uid":123, "name":"Steve"}, "time":"2023-09-22T08:25:43.5...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

64-bit Web Enablement Toolkit

Support being called from a 64-bit LE environment. Would need this for both HTTP enabler and JSON parser.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Way to extract sub-object of parsed JSON

We'd like a way to parse a large JSON file but then extract the JSON for a given entry handle. So like HWTJGVAL but works for an object and turns the address and length of the JSON representing that object. For example, for the sample JSON: {"name...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

GDKUTIL enhancement

GDKUTIL is an utility program to upload/download between MVS datasets and S3 cloud object storage. It seems that right now the data encryption is solely relying on S3 server side encryption. Another security best practice is to enable client side ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future 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

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

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