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Process encryption using an AES 256 key with parameter FF1 on CPACF

Hello, Encryption using FF1 parameter (API ICSF CSNBFFXE / CSNBFFXD) is today processed on crypto cards On crypto cards, as the CP cache is not shared with the crypto card, the elaps time increased a lot (too much) if we want to encrypt data When ...
4 months ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

REST-API to IBM zERT Network Analyzer

Expose the IBM zERT Network Analyzer plugin to RESTful API in order to automate some "manual" work.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Enhance IFASMFDP to use efficient buffering to significantly reduce job elapsed time

All users would benefit in their SMF daily jobstreams by being able to quickly and efficiently process the Hundreds of Millions of records in a short time span.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

The access control check for services, keys or cryptoz resources should be postponed until after the security product has initialized.

We've changed our ICSF startup to an 'early startup' by setting system parameters ICSFPROC=ICSF and ICSF=xx. We're now noticing the following messages during startup that weren't there before : CSFM012I NO ACCESS CONTROL AVAILABLE FOR CRYPTOZ RESO...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF export/import of configuration definitions

We have more than one z/OSMF running in more then one sysplex. We would like to export and import some of the configured functions from one z/OSMF to the other. For example - z/OS Operator Consoles- Links- FTP Servers- etc Same as for Network Conf...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide a DISPLAY PROCLIB command similar to D PARMLIB

Please provide DISPLAY PROCLIB|STCJOBS command similar to the DISPLAY PARMLIB command.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP profile - allow unresolved symbols in promoted configuration file

A lot of work has gone into adding the ability to maintain the TCPIP Profile in the Network Configuration Assistant The TCPIP command xportprof makes it easy to import the existing configurations into the NCA . It brings in the values for used sym...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

hbdelete - deleting Unix Directories recursively

We need an option with hbdelete to delete a whole directory with all files and sub-directories. Like option -X for hlist, the same option could be implemented for hbdelete. e.g. hbdelete -aX /u/iz01715/All files and sub-directories will be deleted...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Update LDAP on z/OS to bring it into this century with the TLS levels it supports

The LDAP documentation (and defaults) are woefully behind times. The give instructions on SSL V3, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 despite these versions being deprecated.The doc needs to be updated. The samples and defaults need to be updated, and deprecated ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR should be of type Error

In my opinion the message IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR ... should be of type error. A job should end with RC 8 and not 4, because it is an error and not an information the utility IFASMFDL gives. So please change it to IFA849E and change the behavior...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

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