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Support EZANS as part of z/OS Communications Server

The EZANS Netstat dialogue is a vital tool for suporting z/OS Communications Server TCPIP. It is not supoorted and is frozen as a level of z/OS 1.12.IBM should formally support EZANS as part of z/OS Communications Server:1. to accept PMRs for faul...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Change HSM Filemode Messages to something different from ARCxxxx to differentiate automation procedures from HSM Classic.

When HSM Classic and Filemode are running as separate tasks and message driven automation is used for things like CDS backups and archiving PDAs and LOGs, compex code is needed to differentiate between the two due to the fact the messages from bot...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Upgrade LibreSSL version to latest under z/OS 3.1 is possible.

As seen via the ssh -V command => OpenSSH_8.4p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2 This version of LibreSSL is not compatible with the latest OpenSSL 3.0 that was installed on an AIX server and that broke an existing CICS application's TCPIP socket connection to ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Under review

Create New SMF Record subtype for ACEECHK Warnings

When enabling ACEECHK class in RACF to detect ACEE modification detection events, only IRR421I is issued to the syslog. This request is to have a SMF80 subtype record created to log these events so they can be easily researched among recent or arc...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Display CPU critical tag for dependent/independent enclaves

As per RMF default settings, Storage/CPU critical is only set for only address spaces entries, not for enclaves. My suggestion is to have a default setting to keep the storage/CPU critical display for enclaves in the RMF III. This would help us to...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

System wide System SSL Settings

We would like the ability to set system wide System SSL settings at IPL time. We would like a configuration, where we can permanently disable legacy SSL settings (protocols, ciphers, ecurves, keysizes, etc.). Currently, it is up to each Applicatio...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

zCX: Personal and technical Userids mustn't be in the same group / results in workflow failures / rerunability

The zCX workflow says for the SAF group to be specified during provisioning: "Specify an existing SAF group name to allow that group access to this IBM z/OS Container Extensions appliance instance directory. The provisioning user of this IBM zCX a...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

OpenShift Foundation for zCX Support for Egress IP addresses

Currently, we're migrating services from OpenShift x86 to OpenShift in zCX. One of our services have to use Egress IP addresses - this is a security requirement. Once we've configured the Egress IPs within OCP@zCX, we see the outbound SYN coming i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add include option to DSFS

There is only one valid value for HLQ_MODE and that is EXCLUDE. To enable controlled use of DSFS in production, HLQ_MODE=EXCLUDE is insufficient. What sense does the parameter make if there is only one permissible value, namely EXCLUDE? How would ...
4 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow to populate inactive logger couple dataset with logger policy

When preparing a new sysplex, it is possible to populate other couple datasets like CFRM and SFM in advance with a suitable policy, so that the policies are in place right from the first start of the sysplex. This would be especially useful to be ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 3 Not under consideration

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