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Additional information about the status of Cache Fast Write

Currently there is no easy way to be sure, that Cache Fast Write(CFW) is not used on your system. But in the event of an hyperswap CFW can be a problem. Therefore every customer should know their configuration. The problem is that the "DEVSERV P" ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

List of Common Event Adapter (CEA) Access Requirements

Currently, it is documented that CEA requires the RACF TRUSTED attribute. This is a concern for our Security Administrators and Auditors. We are requesting a more granular list of access requirements for CEA and elimination of the requirement that...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 1 Future consideration

Component name in IFGRPL

When the Vsam has no more volumes, there's a need to make an extent by idcams.To automate de idcams jcl, there's a requirement to know the component name of vsam to extent, but there's no information of that in ifgrpl. we need this information in ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to RACF ListChain

Any chance to enhance LISTCHAIN to format out some messages tellingabout + alternate CA pathes + existence of 'cross certify' intermediate CA certificates + use a well prepared keyring to favour a well prepared CA path Jörg SeitzIBM TSS Networking...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

PDSE V1 to V2 Bulk Conversion Utility

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR100313340User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS13005Title: PDSE V1 to V2 Bulk Conversion UtilitySubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSSFPOC: E...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Future consideration

REXX: Should Support Major Access Method

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0711115115User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE018757Title: REXX: Should Support Major Access MethodsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSE...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

libevent / libev on z/OS

For multithread connections libevent and libev boost network performance. It is avaliable on other IBM platforms like AIX. Right now select is used to detect socket acitivity and it is an expensive operation. Usage of libevent and libev would be g...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Disabling of SSLV3 and SSLV2 Protocol Usage

Please provide a system level setting to deny connections using SSLV2 or SSLV3 protocol, which Applications can not override by use of any ENVAR or other settings. For both Client and Server side.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / SSL 3 Not under consideration

Need to register more than one user with the same email address in the WORKATTR segment

It is quite common for a single human to have more than one system id, but have only one corporate email address. I am unable to register more than one user with the same email address in the WORKATTR segment. I get this error and the email addres...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow DHSMSHSM to set a lifecycle policy during bucket creation

We are using IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering and HSM to migrate data to the cloud. We have had instances where the migration fails, which can result in orphaned "multipart uploads in progress" on the cloud object storage. We have been manually remov...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration