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Core Infrastructure

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SVC DUMP generation causes an application time-out error

Before this, SVC DUMP generation from an address space has caused WLM time-out under our WebSphere Application Servers. SVC DUMPs generated tend to grow its size as customer system environments expand. Once SVC DUMP is generated, DUMPSRV puts DUMP...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Delivered

DFSMSrmm EDGHSKP hold function

Currently, if we wanted to hold RMM EDGHSKP functions, we are not able to do this. F DFRMM,HOLD(HSKP) would only allow you to hold the HSKP function if it was running at the time, but, does not prevent any NEW future HSKP. There is HOLD(ALL) and H...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 6 Delivered

zOSMF Staging Capabilities

Need the ability to define target stacks to perform a “group” upload and apply.Need change management facilities within zOSMF to allow gradual staging of configuration changes.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

PCI DSS requires Dataset encyption

For PCI-DSS compliance it is needed that live data (datsets) residing on storage subsystems attached to z/OS systems can be transparently encrypted. Encyption needs to be controlled by z/OS descriptorslike RACF DFP segments or such.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Delivered

z/OSMF for z/OS Communications Server print out failed

Hello , in the IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server we want to print the health check from the Rules panel. To see our health check Browser output you had to scroll down in the Browser page . If you want to print this output ...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Display specific error messages in the NCA z/OSMF UI pages

When trying to delete a port in the Network Configuration Assistant pages of z/OSMF, the freeing of the port failed with:Internal Server Error - 500CAMSGE There was no other message, which led to a difficult time understanding and resolving the is...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Enforce Master Key "Key Parts" to be entered by different TSO userids

When master keys are changed under the ICSF panels (in ISPF), ICSF has no knowledge of whether the first, middle or last key parts were entered by the same userid.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Delivered

Create a new parameter to allow OMPROUTE to send requests to the DNS Server a specified number of times. related to EZZ3908E.

We are receiving numerous EZZ3908E errors where the DNS Server is not responding before the timeout occurs. I would like to address 2 things. First is that these occur during off hours and there may only be one request. It fail so there is a 100% ...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Delivered

CSSMTP is rejecting emails containing nulls if lines are greater then 512 characters.

We at Morgan Stanley want an option setting for CSSMTP that if turned on will treat nulls the way CSSMTP treats blanks. Currently Blanks are not counted in line totals but nulls are.
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Support for all/international characters

If any special character in a dataset z/OSMF can't access.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

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