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Core Infrastructure

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TSO REXX - SAY SHOULD NOT CHOP OUTPUT IN

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR031011415User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SOMVSE90027Title: TSO REXX - SAY SHOULD NOT CHOP OUTPUT INTO 79 CHAR PIECESSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Not under consideration

TSO/E: SUBMIT Should Provide for Not Tra

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00074949User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE99507Title: TSO/E: SUBMIT Should Provide for Not Translating to Upper CaseSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298F...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Not under consideration

TSO/E - Make GDG Dataset Names valid for

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0429115953User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE014961Title: TSO/E - Make GDG Dataset Names valid for TSO PARSESubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPR...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Not under consideration

IDS Enhancement for nonstandard source port

We need to a way when an inbound client syn is coming in with a non-standard source port (below 1024) to be able to detect that and take action.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

VTAM-IDS : Modify DSMONITR for SLUs

We use VTAM startoption DSMONITR=YES and want to turn it off for special telnet LU's not all. That isn't possibly because the parameter DSMONITR=NO only works with PLUs. Telnet LUs are always SLUs.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow allocation of RRSFLIST to be suppressed

RACF RRSF ALU command with AT or ONLYAT results in allocation of the RRSFLIST data set with limited naming conventions and no ability to suppress.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Configuration Assistant Health Reports

When I create a health check report for it seems to be missing critical information. IPSEC health check shows nothing for the time conditions unless you go to a specific rule and view details. QOS health check shows nothing for the advanced sysple...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

EZD1326I is too vague a message

We started getting this error in our logs NSSD: EZD1326I Request type NSS_VerifySignatureReqToSrv with correlator ID 0000000000000D7D0000000000000000 from from client NSSCERT failed - return code EINVAL reason code NSSRsnSaNotInCertLife . While th...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Need FTP for z/OS to support substitution for MBCS data translation

Need FTP to support substitution for MBCS data translation like SBSUB, DBSUB, and UCSSUB options.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Unable to use GDGs as output datstest for Encryption Facility for z/OS. For further details please refer to 13643,047,649

Unable to use GDGs as output dataset for Encryption Facility for z/OS. For further details please refer to 13643,047,649
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration