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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
over 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.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 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

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...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

Support TLSv1.3 with CDA and GDK through its provider files

TLSv1.3 is the most recent version of SSL available and it provides enhanced encryption while removing insecure algorithms that were available in prior versions of the protocol. The handshake is more efficient. Sites might mandate using TLSv1.3 or...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 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...
almost 3 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.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 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

convert more than just the IBM-1047 to UTF-8

We're really interested in DFSMS CDA and have a lot of use cases. However, more code pages need to be added to the CONVERT option. We need to have support for EBCDIC 278 <=> UTF-8.
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Download and upload datasets and dataset members with non-alphanumeric, non-national special characters

This request is similar to RFE ID 142345 - Download and upload datasets and dataset members with names in different encodings than IBM-1047 using REST API. Product: Zowe CLI, Zowe Explorer, Postman Actor: User attempting to download or modify a da...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

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