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Enabling of a rest service/https support to use OAM functions

Enhancement of OAM by enabling rest service support for customers to use OAM functions
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

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.
19 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Enhance the HZS0201I message to include the "active" Check parameters

The current output (the HZS0201I message) from the DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAIL command displays the "DEFAULT PARAMETERS" and the "USER SUPPLIED PARAMETERS", but it does not display the list of parameters that are actually being used by the Check. One mi...
19 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Submitted

Existing WebtoolKit api's to be offered in Java/Python

Currently we are letting customer to use webtoolkit api in C and PLX. And there is increase in demand for the application layer to be developed either in Java/Python. If we could exhibit the webtoolkit api's in other languages then other component...
19 days ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Submitted

z/OS UNIX commands in /bin (cat, echo, touch, vi) as well as /bin/sh redirect should tag files.

I find myself tagging existing files that were untagged EBCDIC to work with new open-source ASCII based tools that rely on automatic conversion. A suggestion from Igor Todorovski ( itodorov@ca.ibm.com ): “Could be achieved by providing a new versi...
4 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Anticipating RACF profiles that reaching maximum size

IRR411I message indicates when a profile reached the maximum output size that RACF can handle (65 535 bytes), but it is not possible to know the real size of a profile at a given moment to anticipate this situation. Would it be possible to impleme...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Define the conflicting certificates have same public key within RACF database

RACF database should have certificates with same public key to be defined. As long as certificates have different serial number, they should be consider as different certificates. Since Digicert has created two intermediate CA which have different...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path.

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path. Ticket : TS016454799
20 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Backup/Restore During zOSMF Software Update

Scenario: A user would like to apply updates to their Software Instance in Software Update on z/OSMF. Current: Right now, you can perform a corrective install, recommended install, or functional install and the environment is updated with no backu...
11 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

RMF I/O new panel with RATE/response time for ASYN SYNC(zhyperl) CSR (Consistent Read Secondary)

We currently get the I/O response time and and I/O rate by running a RMF report (summary) as follow : The JCL //RMFPP EXEC PGM=ERBRMFPP,REGION=0M //MFPINPUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYTMVS.$SJ08.W9AS3JC.SMF.TOUT.D240128.TKS1 //PPSUM001 DD SYSOUT=* //PPSUM0...
5 months ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

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