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HWTHCONN - Creation of a Customized Connect Timeout option

Developers building new applications using z/OS HTTP/HTTPS callable services has no way to set a customizable connect timeout when calling HWTHCONN. So, when a server isn't available, the call is kept blocked until it finally timed out after 75 se...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 3 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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

RMM shall keep Vol/Dataset information for all volumes, till TS77* Expire-Hold is reached

TS77* LWorm data set and volume information are cleared when scratch. This information is very important when volumes are deleted by accident.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 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...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 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.
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

OMVS GREP should support z/OS datasets

Many OMVS commands support accessing z/OS datasets using the "//'dataset.name'" but grep is not one of them. With OMVS scripting becoming more pervasive and with the need to access z/OS datasets still a requirement, this is important.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Delivered

JES2 POLICY - read and use value of SYSTEM SYMBOL

Within the new JES2 POLICY we need the possibility to read and use some SYSTEM SYMBOLS.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA

When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

CSSMTP support for RFC4954

CSSMTP needs to support RFC4954 for TLS connectity to Microsoft Exchange servers.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

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