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Core Infrastructure

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zERT Information for Self-Signed Certificates with no Valid Serial Numbers

We want zERT SMF 119 records to report on all Certificates even if they do not have a Serial number or valid Serial Number like Self-Signed Certificates. You do not report on these self-signed certificates and need these reported on.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add ICMP probe support to the Tracerte tool.

Currently Tracerte uses UDP packets for the probes and ICMP msgs for the responses. Firewall implementations prefer ICMP Echo & Echo reply msgs for Tracerte. Currently many other implementations either use ICMP msgs or allow ICMP msgs to be us...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

DFSMSrmm "Dependent Write"

The Itau bank has 2 large sysplex, the Bank and Cards, both systems are user of IBM DFSMSrmm product. Our 2 environments have the GDPS MGM (Metro/Global Mirror) with hyperswap solution, periodically we run our Disaster Recovery Test on Site C to c...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Not under consideration

ICSF panels - add key label usage / search function

Would like the ability to display what key labels were used during a certain interval or past xx days. With HCR77B0+ ICSF can track what keys were used, but there isn't an 'off the shelf' solution for sysprogs/admins to be able to view the data, i...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Not under consideration

Provide an option to prevent RPTSTG(ON) from internally resetting the initial stack size

When RPTSTG(ON) option is set, LE resets the initial stack size to 1MB for 64-bit applications. This is fine for code in which LE automatically expands the stack when needed, however for generated code (as in JavaScript code from Node.js) in which...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Request to change the time condition in CPM policies from GMT to local time.

This RFE is to request changing the time conditions in the Capacity Provisioning Manager policy from using GMT time to using local time.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 6 Not under consideration

MODDVIPA error code for zCX DVIPA should be improved

If I create a zCX Application-Specific DVIPA range and attempt to allocate a DVIPA with MODDVIPA then the error message I receive is EZZ8314I DVIPA CREATE ioctl() failed for 10.137.90.97 ERRNO=EDC5121I Invalid argument. ERRNOJR=766C7303 If I use B...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Include functionality for tape optimization in HSM during dataset recovery from FRBACKUP DUMP tape volumes

Include functionality for tape optimization in HSM during dataset recovery from FRBACKUP DUMP tape volumes
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

-eA command: set key flags in accordance with RACF key usage

Our keys for OpenPGP are stored as X.509 certificates in RACF. Here key usage may be specified, for instance "Key Usage: DOCSIGN" or "Key Usage: DATAENCRYPT". When using Encryption Facility for exporting these (with the -eA command), Encryption Fa...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 2 Not under consideration

DFHSM ARCPRPDO should produce better details in the sysprint

Currently if the ARCPRPDO does not find any records, it only puts out the sysin input: CONTROL PARMS FROM SYSIN: COMPACT START(17175,080000) END(17175,110000) It would be better to provide better details in the output.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Not under consideration