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Core Infrastructure

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TN3270 LU USSTCP mapping

We need to replace network gateways with TN3270 client access. One of the requirements is to have specific LU names with specific USSTCP tables, but many (thousands) clients use the same IP address (NAT). The client selects a specific LU name. We ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow RACMAP commands to be propagated via RRSF

Allow RACMAP commands to be propagated via RRSF.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

NETSTAT VDPT display include active/quiesce state

Currently the NETSTAT VDPT display does not show whether or not a target is active or quiesced for SYSPLEX distribution. This information could be added to the NETSTAT display output.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

For RRS_DELAYED_TRANSACTIONS Check, give customers ability to adjust transaction duration time

After activating RRS Healthchecker check RRS_DELAYED_TRANSACTIONS in z/OS 2.2, we encountered many instances of the check flagging exceptions, but the next interval the check runs, it is successful. Since the exception is only for one interval, it...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 1 Future consideration

EF-OpenPGP enhanchement for z/OS <=> LUW

ENCRYPT and DECRYPT of files and CodePage/encoding and zip/unzip use too much CPU and MEMORY for small and medium size files. The JCL need many steps to handle the data. Usually ASCII data is shipped as encrypted to z/OS, and must then be transfor...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

TCPIP profile needs better handling for deprecated parms / out of order parms

Hi IBM, This past weekend, we had the upgrade on our production systems AMVS , where we moved from 2.1 to 2.2,post the IPL we had TCPIP that came up without IPSEC as we had a degraded parm in the IPCONFIG block. The problem was that a deprecated k...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Syslog Daemon

Syslog daemon doesn't support multi-line for -N destination rule.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Attaching 64 bit executable and passing parameters and env variables

In our 32 bit application we used an ATTACH macro to create a process and:- share subpools 0 and 1 (used macro paramaters SZERO=YES,SHSPV=1)- pass a list of arguments- pass a list of env variables However when we started attaching 64 bit executabl...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

OPEN ACB in LUNS/LUNR sysplex fail doa CDRSC cleanup not yet completed

The LU was connected to TN3270AT on PRDB using client IP address 192.168.20.229 (Telnet proxy) when it connected at the telnet server on PRDA using client IP address 192.168.20.228 49089 which kicked off TAKEOVER processing. Telnet server on PRDB ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

'Search' Option in zosmf

We are looking for options to search for a particular string in the zosmf rules. For example, if we need to find which rules are coded with a specific IP address , zosmf should have some options like searching this specific string and display all ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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