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Core Infrastructure

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Enhance Kerberos/SKRBKDC limit to more than 2048 sockets

Currently, there is a hard coded limit of 2048 for the number of parallel open sockets for Kerberos / SKRBKDC (see Msg: EUVF04031E Limit of 2048 sockets exceeded). We're using Kerberos authentication for nearly all of our business transactions to ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
6 months ago in z/OS / LE 4 Future consideration

System SSL HTTP CRL request should understand all valid HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol responses

At the moment System SSL describes the following requirement:"System SSL uses the HTTP/1.1 protocol to send the HTTP CRL request and requires an HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol response.The HTTP response must include a valid content-length field tha...
4 months ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
6 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

Move Policy Agent processing to above the bar to correct storage exhaustion errors during policy REFRESH/UPDATE

We are building an ipSecPolicy file for REFRESH/UPDATE into PAGENT for load to TCPIP for packet management. In defining our rules, we've found we have a very large Policy Agent definition file to cover such disparate issues as VIPA, DVIPA, Enterpr...
10 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

Support LogFilter for ibm-filterSubject

Currently, we can set a logfilter for an IP-Adress by using / F ldapuxsl, LOG FILTER,(IBM-FILTERIP=1.2.3.4) In the ACL documentation we find additional filters that can be set for ACLs, for example ibm-filterSubject. Having the Subject filter also...
10 days ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Submitted

Enhance D OMVS command to show all active PARMLIB members used

At IPL time a d omvs command will display all the BPXPRMxx members used as expected. But if a t omvs=xx is issued later then the d omvs command will only report on that one BPXPRMxx and *not* the prior members which is misleading and incorrect as ...
2 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Enable ZHYPERWRITE for VSAM and VSAM-RLS in IGDSMSxx

PTF UJ92354 Following this documentation : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=performance-zhyperwrite It's said we should configure "ZHYPERWRITE=YES option was specified in the ACB or RPL.", so far I don't understand where to set this par...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration