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Use TSO Rest services in PARMLIB or a user setting to change the z/OSMF code page

There isn't an option to set the code page for the z/OSMF File editor (magnifying glass). z/OSMF ISPF allows you to specify a codepage for that interactive TSO-ISPF session https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=ispf-user-settings-window Howe...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zERT Network Analyzer - Timezone adjustment with date/time for import

While loading data into zERT the start and end time reported in the 'Data Management History' tab is not the local or system time. It seems to be UTC and this cannot be changed via the Settings. As I would like to see those times in the local time...
6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP comply with AUTH by rfc4954

Need to include the AUTH command on CSSMTP component on zOS TCPIP and zVM TCPIP in order to comply with the rfc4954
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 11 Future consideration

Enhance Kerberos/SKRBKDC limit to more than 2048 sockets

Currently, there is a hard coded limit of 2048 for the number of parallel open sockets for Kerberos / SKRBKDC (see Msg: EUVF04031E Limit of 2048 sockets exceeded). We're using Kerberos authentication for nearly all of our business transactions to ...
5 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

Provide a ascertained historical view of all installed and/or activated capacity records

Why is it useful? In our installation a variety of different capacity records are used on multiple machines with frequent changes to the activated capacity levels. This makes it cumbersome to reconstruct the active capacity levels for any given po...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Functionality already exists

SDSF to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) for Middleware Subsystems on z16 showing boost eligibility and if boost has actually occurred along with type of boost.

There is currently no way to determine whether a Middleware Subsystem running on a z16 is eligible for BOOST without going into the WLM Service Definition --> Classification Rules --> STC and then paging right to check the BOOST column. Not ...
11 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - signature failure

When using RECSIGN and ARECSIGN to sign the records and validate them afterwards and there is an error, it is not clear which of the two signatures failed. However, this is the essential/crucial point of the dual signature. I have to know if the c...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - provided tokens

Currently when two tokens are provided for the validation whereas one is not valid, IFASMFDP only issues:VALIDATION FAILED: RECORDED AND SUPPLIED CRYPTO OPTIONS DO NOT MATCHbut the program would know if the SGINVALIDATE or the ASIGNVALIDATE token ...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - in regards of inconsistent records

When running a Validation report for a full day and message IFA742I is issued it only tells me:VALIDATION FAILED: INCONSISTENT RECORDS - RECORDS DO NOT MATCH EXPECTED TIMES However, the day has 24h hours, split into 15min SMF interval leading to 9...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Functionality already exists

Add interface to JES2/3 to be able to submit jobs via SFTP script similarly as FTP

First, the facility is on the regular FTP to JES2 job submission. This is not available on an SFTP process, this interface should be similar to the FTP. How it should work: When a client sends data in this case to the zOS mainframe, after the file...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

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