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add 64bit interface to iarqdump or equivalent

the documented interface iarqd aka. iarqdump allows one to skip un-instantiated pages in the 31bit region; i have a need to do the same for 64bit storage ranges; perhaps you could document it for use. many thanks
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Delivered

Meaningful internal battery feature hardware message

Due to the conversion of the battery technology inside the Internal Battery Feature (IBF) of the IBM z15 systems to lithium-ion batteries and the associated risk of thermal runaway, an effective and quick alert is required in recognizable critical...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

z/OSMF Software Management Remote Deploy without Specification of Storage Class or Volume

When we use z/OSMF remote software deployment we have to specify storage classes for the source and target systems. We have a lot of target systems with a lot of storage classes and would like to let the ACS routines select the proper storage clas...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Retrieve encryption status in ISPF at cluster level

While ISPF retrieves the information needed to display the encryption status for the DATA and INDEX, ISPF does not retrieve the information needed for the CLUSTER. Encryption status should be made available in ISPF for DATA, INDEX and CLUSTER.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

CMS/zCMS & Pipe updates to support TLS

The IOCTL interface in TCP/IP supports client and server transition to and from TLS, but only from C and Assembler. Rexx and CMS Pipelines needs to be updated so those environments can use TLS encryption as well.
about 7 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

All color adjustment of status fields.

It can be extremely difficult to identify systems "not active" and "not operating" because they use the same icon (X) and color in the status column. In the "Classical view" it was easy to quickly identify different states of objects based on thei...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

ICSF: Allow us to restrict ARCHIVED keys for decryption only

We want to deploy Pervasive Encryption for Datasets and do not want ARCHIVEd keys to be able to be used for encryption, just decryption.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Delivered

HMC Email From Domain Setting

HMC EMAIL NOTIFICATION NEEDS TO INDICATE 'FROM' DOMAIN OF '@DOMAIN.COM' INSTEAD OF '@NAME.DOMAIN.COM' FOR SECURITY EMAIL FILTER PURPOSES.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

Allow symbolic substitution in the JES2 JOBDEF NFY_SUBJECT parameter

In the new JES2 2.3 NFY_SUBJECT parameter in JES2 parms, the 'string' cannot contain symbols such as &SYSJOBNM. Please provide that function ASAP so our JOB notification e-mails can have meaningful Subject lines, such as 'job name ended with n...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered

ISPF 3.2 support for DSKEYLBL

ISPF 3.2 support for the DSKEYLBL keyword; which is used for pervasive dataset encryption. The current ISPF 3.2 panel does not support it, so the end user needs to code JCL to allocate a dataset for pervasive encryption; which slows down implement...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

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