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Core Infrastructure

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HSM FLB Message Suppression

Suppress generated error messages or route them with another routecode.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Enhance zERT discovery to be more accurate in recognizing and recording TLS sessions with very large handshake messages and unusual timing

zERT discovery is currently unable to recognize TLS sessions when handshake messages exceed the maximum TLS record length. It also relies on timers in specific situations that can sometimes generate misleading information regarding TLS sessions th...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

APPC

During situations where IMS floods with transactions the flood control is active by default and IMS will take action if thresholds are reached. If the number of APPC requests that are queued in 64-bit storage exceeds 1,000,000. IMS stops all APPC ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_APPC 0 Future consideration

Dual Control at zOS (for destructive activities)

Many System programmers and Administrators on zSystems have authority to delete data. Often they also have authority to Access DASD Subsystems(DS8*) or tape Subsystems (TS77/TS45). It would be good to have the possibility to allow destructive acti...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Any OSPROTECT processing should be offloaded on zIIP processor

When enabling the OSPROTECT=1 attirbute, any additional workload should not be executed on CP but on a zIIP processor
over 1 year ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Encryption Facility must display the Key id used to decypher a message

When we receive an OpenPGP document (message), it is decypher by IBM Encryption Facility. Only two messages are displayed by the tool : CSD0779I Signature by key ID 7FCA32ED59C06F76 is valid.CSD0051I Command processing has completed successfully. ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

Health check enhancement for XCF_CDS in a zOS Hyperswap environment managed by CSM

The existing checks XCF_CDS_SPOF and XCF_CDS_SEPARATION don't check in a HyperSwap environment that primary CDSes and alternate CDSes are on separate DASD boxes of different sites. An extention should check the site information of the HyperSwap se...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Extend JES2 SSI to return INTRDR settings like AUTH and CLASS

Please add an API extension (presumably in SSI 82) to be able to obtain the current JES2 INTRDR (template) settings as modified by $T INTRDR. Specifically AUTH is urgently needed, but more settings like CLASS are welcome.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

DSNTYPE=LARGE support as INPUT for IFASMFDP

This is a new public REQUEST for an older requets to permit user's votes on it.Initial request = MR0311105836 from 2011Migrated to RFE request as: RFE 50060 in 2014Due to increasing of SMF data, we need now to be able to use DSNTYPE=LARGE with IFA...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Use USS_PARMLIB Health Checker on Libraries other than SYS1.PARMLIB

We use USS_PARMLIB Health checks on our BPXPRMxx members in SYS1.PARMLIB. However, most errors occur during IPL time with an updated version of these members. It would be convenient if we can use the USS_PARMLIB Health check on other (distribution...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration