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Core Infrastructure

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Excessive CPU usage during HSM EXPIREBV/BDEL of USS file backups

HSM consumes unacceptable high amount of CPU time during EXPIREBV and BDEL processing
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 16 Delivered

Provide OpenShift Data Foundation support for zCX OCP.

zCX OCP needs a good native alternative for data persistence. OpenShift Data Foundation can supply this lack providing a native, resilient, and secure mechanism for data persistence, as same as provided in other platforms.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Delivered

z/OSMF Security Configuration Assistant

Security Configuration Assistant is a very friendly and handy product to check security settings once you have the base z/OSMF setup, however, for those who still do not have it completely setup it is impossible to use, so what I am proposing is t...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

zERT - Passphrase Support

zERT must support Passphrase for authentication and not only 8 char passwords.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

zERT - unneccessary Migration trouble 2.3 to 2.4 to 2.5

We were on z/OS 2.3 and have zERT Table Version 1.3.0 in use.After Migration to z/OS 2.4 the zERT-Plugin in z/OSMF tells wrong schema version.So i tried to run Migration Script IZUZNADG, which creates the new statements for getting correct DDL.But...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Provide a way to identify zCX address spaces

Customers would like to be able to identify address spaces as zCX running address spaces. Preferably they would like a field on an SDSF screen to say yes or no. Then they can sort of select based on that setting.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Delivered

Add support for either DNSSEC or DoH

Nowadays, security is an important concern in every IT area. Data privacy and integrity should be provided for data at rest and data in transit. Traditional DNS protocol running over UDP plaintext is vulnerable for attack, for example DNS spoofing...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Enhance CDA for Signed Payload and Improve Tracing

The Provider files do not currently have the parms needed to support SIGNED Payload, currently it's only support "UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD" to use a signed payload we need to enhance CDA. Currently there is no tracing until the TOOLKIT is called as that i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

JES2 EMAIL DELIVERY SERVICES Customization

Provide ability to customize subject line when using JES2 EMAIL DELIVERY Services. Today we have to open the email to associate a jobname job number, system and rc of the job which is not convenient.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

Allow Changing Password from z/OSMF Login

Currently, when a user with an expired password attempts to login to z/OSMF they will receive a rejection to their logon. Users should be presented with a process to update their password from within z/OSMF itself. The current user experience is u...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

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