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Granularity of protection of the FIRST, ADD-PART, COMPLETE phases of key part import

A UL assessor, examining the 4767/CEX5S card for certification for use by the Australian Banking industry, was very interested in our "dual control" capabilities. We have a good story when a TKE is in play (via ACPs and authorities), but the story...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP Profile - readability of configuration file

The generated TCPIP Profile lacks readability. The installed tcpip profile should be readable, with reasonable indention and spacing.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Turn OFF VTAM INTERNAL TRACE OPTIONS : PSS,SMS by default

High-volume TN3270 applications are negatively impacted by this internal trace with options PSS and SMS being active by default at VTAM start-up.These options (at high transaction rates), cause excessive CPU utilization in the TN3270 address space...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration

Need a parm to be added in SETSMS CICSVR command as a part of RFE 89552

Needed the below shown options for SETSMS command in DFSMS as a part of RFE 89552 development. SETSMS CICSVR_TIMER(x) x - can be any value from 0 to 7200
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Not under consideration

LDAP zOS - internal static group lookup

Create a parameter to choose the objectclass that will be used to search in DB2 for static Groups of a user in function tdbm_get_staticgroups()
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 2 Not under consideration

LDAP zOS - SNMP Monitoring

Implement SNMP Monitoring for directory server RFC2605
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 3 Not under consideration

LDAP z/OS - Referential integrity plug-in

Implement a Referential integrity plug-in like available in ITDS for other platforms. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSVJJU_6.3.0/com.ibm.IBMDS.doc/admin_gd558.htm%23ri
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

CICS with COBOL v5 recognize need for binder programs

There is new requirement when using COBOL ver 5 and program uses TEST option to include SYS1.MIGLIB and SYS1.SIEAMIGE in the DFHRPL. If the binder programs are not available, the region suffers from various storage violations. CICS should be able ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 4 Future consideration

z/osmf rest api should return pds(e) membername base64 encoded

PDS(E) membernames are 8 bytes each byte has a hexadecimal value except some reserved values. Z/osmf rest api considers all membernames as being text and returns membernames after codepage translation. Though this is ok for all ispf created member...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS v1.13 EREP full with tracewrt getbuff entries

z/OS v1.13 EREP full with tracewrt getbuff entries :The z/OS EREP buffer size was probably unchanged for the past 15 years. It can not handle today's high rate of erep entries.EREP should be enhanced to be able to handle it.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

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