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Core Infrastructure

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LE individual modules CEEROPT and CEEUOPT should be treated the same

CEEROPT and CEEUOPT allow for the passage of LE options at the individual job/application level. However, currently CEEROPT and be loaded from STEPLIB while CEEUOPT requires that it be linked with the application/program. CEEROPT is for region lev...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Test General

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over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Not under consideration

Move the LSRPOOL Buffers to Above-the-Bar Storage

Move the LSRPOOL buffers from extended above the line storage to above-the-bar storage.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 4 Not under consideration

Intelligent refresh after a new user/group is added to a resource access list.

After adding an user or group to a resource access list a SETROPTS REFRESH for the class to which the resource belongs is required. This has a huge impact on performance depending on the resource class.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

zos telnet need to support ssl tls1.2

zos telnet cannot support ssl . We are eliminating non secure connection of port 23, 1023, and 2023. our user logon to tso then use option 6 to telnet to another mainframe via unsecure session. We need to have this function secure using like using...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Better Messages and Help for LOGLIM in OPERLOG

If you enter 'F xx PREV' in OPERLOG and get the Message 'TOP OF DATA REACHED' this could mean that you reach top of data or the LOGLIM – there is no way to differentiate what is true. It would be much easier for the user if ‘LOGLIM REACHED' is dis...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Allow FTP proxy port to be configurable

Customers have interest in being able to configure the port used for FTP proxy.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Honor Password History to ALU PASSWORD Command

Performing an ALTUSER command allows users to reset their password to one of their historic passwords. Please enhance the command with an option to honor the history or issue a warning when there is a collision with a password in the history.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

z/OS TSO - Add LOGLINE option to IKJTSOxx LOGON setting

In zOS TSO PARMLIB member IKJTSOxx, add an option to replace macro IKJTSO's LOGLINE setting, similar to how APAR OA57937 did for its LOGTIME setting. If users want to change the default MODGEN(IKJTSO) values for LOGTIME/LOGLINE, they would assemb...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Enhance RACF so that ALTUSER UserID OWNER is a noop if the OWNER is already set

Please enhance RACF so that if someone were to issue:ALTUSER BRUCE OWNER(MARKN) and also if UserID BRUCE already has an OWNER of MARKN then an ICH message is issued that nothing has been modified instead of just modifying the owner again.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration