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Enhancement for Encryption Facility Product

Problem when using the command rP Command during Encryption Check PMR 67534 661 706, all details is descripbed in the PMR
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

Enhance F OMPROUTE,OSPF,STATISTICS

Enhance the MVS Command "F OMPROUTE,OSPF,STATISTICS" to include the size of the built LSAs in the display.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

RACF Profile list for APF authorized libraries

Utility that will check who has access (and what levels) to the APF libraries. Should list profiles that control the access as wellSensitive access HC doesn't go to the Access level (just read or update).
about 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Improvements to Policy Agent

An expired key causes connection failures to DB2. Looking to improve resiliency within AT-TLS implementation
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

DFSMSdfp Use RACF to protect and control the use of DFSMSdfp dataclass

Datasets are allocated with different characteristics. To prevent allocation of dataset with wrong characteristics we protect certain dataclasses against common use. We basically only control it by using the read-only variables &GROUP and &am...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

WLM initiator

WLM initiator address space will be dropped after several minutes inactive. Customer want to control the WLM initiator dropping processing, such as there is a parameter we can set to control how many minutes the WLM initiator will be dropped, or e...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Not under consideration

System Logger: Avoid cutting Logrec Entries for Abend47B of suspended List Transition Exit SRB's

We frequently get logrec entries for an abend47B related to the system logger. In case TS003898376 is has been clarified that the reported abend47B is happening "by design" for the XCF List Transition exit SRB (IXLX1LTE-SRB) under which System Log...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 1 Not under consideration

Performance improvement for FTPs MVSPUT

When the FTP subcommand MVSPUT (introduced with z/os v2r1) is used then for each member transmitted a new data connection is established. For a non-encrypted connection, this is no problem, but for an encrypted connection each of those data connec...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

RMF Recording KiloBytes Transferred

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP98002: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=2 +4=1 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=4 -1=1 Priority=2.5 (Please ignore the vote of 0.0 elsewhere) RMF should collect the kilobytes (KB) transferred for each device on an inter...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Health Checks formatted in a dump

Health check exception information should be included in a dump with IPCS formatters provided.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Future consideration

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