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Core Infrastructure

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PGAD0712-1526 JCL enhancement to support codepage (CCSID) definition in DCB parameter

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: xgadweiSubmitters Company: GAD eG PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PGAD0712-1526 JCL enhancement to support codepage (CCSID) definition in DCB parameterHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCur...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode 2 Future consideration

PLAC0813-1625 Speed up zOS 1.13. path recovery improvements - extend to CHPID.link

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0813-1625 Speed up zOS 1.13. path recovery improvementsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Recogni...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Future consideration

Request for a display command for devices in a specific SS

I am not sure if this is the right place for this question, so please feel free to route it accordingly. We are using SS(0), SS(1), and SS(2) for various functions in our DASD addressing scheme. We are using SS(0) for our base addresses, SS(1) for...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

TKDS Support with Encryption Facility

Encryption Facility (EF) currently supports the ICSF CKDS and PKDS. The TKDS was implemented in ICSF after the initial EF support. Would be great to add that final KDS to the list of supported key stores.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

VERSION NUMBER needs to be picked up in the __dyn_t-structure

To be able to use dynalloc() a variable of type __dyn_t needs to be intialized with dyninit(): The __dyn_t structure must be initialized using the dyninit() macro defined in dyninit.h to ensure the proper "hidden" version indicator is used. Improp...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Requests for improvement : please set the selection to change NODELAYACKS / DELAYACKS even when the response mode.

I can set NODELAYACKS / DELAYACKS the PORT statement in TCPIP Profile, but it becomes NODELAYACKS forces if the response mode is requested.I understand that this logic that has been implemented to improve performance. However, NODELAYACKS is force...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Dual Control use of keys with RACF

Admin actions that authorize the use of keys should require dual controlSupport configuration that requires 2 security administrators to authorize the use of a key.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Not under consideration

Incident log

The proxy userid and password is visible in the submitted PDUU batch job on spool.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Health Check for RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES

Would like to be able to differentiate results from the IBM Health Checker RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES check. It currently provides an error message IRRH204E if either a sensitive dataset has ID(*) or UACC greater than read, those flagged with an "E"...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

NFS Server Tracing Check using MVS Health Checker

Our company uses zNFS to facilitate data transfers between z/OS and AIX servers. Our zNFS servers always used to run with the default CTINFS00 settings: Info, Warning, Error, and FFDC (mode="ON"). Following a recent incident in our production envi...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Not under consideration