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Minimize risk of odd input in HMC settings

Defined Capacity or Group Capacity is changed on a regular basis. To minimize the risk of odd input, the new value should be checked against the old value.In case the difference is more than 50%, an appropriate warning should be displayed.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Strengthen the Certificate that authenticates SMP/E Download-Servers (deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com/ deliverycb-mul.dhe.ibm.com)

The Root-Certificate used to sign the Server-Certificates for the SMP/E Download Servers (deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com / deliverycb-mul.dhe.ibm.com) has been created with an old SHA1 algorithm. We would like to ask, if you could create new Server-Ce...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Order/Distr/Install 1 Not under consideration

Option to include CICS JES Log / Job Log in DUMP

Option to include JES Log in DUMP. Either PERFORM DUMP or STAND ALONE DUMP. Had problem of hung CICS region; captured dump; cancelled and restarted CICS. Unfortunately; when Cancelled the Job Log apparently was purged and not SPOOLed to the archiv...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 1 Future consideration

Devsup Report of all parameters including defaults

Have one report to display all the fields and value for all parameters that are in DEVSUP member. Today, we have to doc the multiple places to validate fields. See use case.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 2 Planned for future release

LE storage report STACK64 option new feature

The Maximum used by all concurrent threads is to count active thread number which is counted after thread initialization before thread termination and could handle the workload. We need one thread number statistics value align with the stack lifet...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IKED joblog

It would be immensely helpful in a troubleshooting situation to have timestamps in the job log of the IKE daemon.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

No support of TR31 Block D K1 keys with dual mode of use

ICSF does not support TR31 K1 keys of type D with mode of use B(for encrypt and decrypt). CSNBT31I service ends with cc8/rsn7e0 (incorrect rule array parameter content). This makes ICSF CCA incompatible with authorities that do not separate KEKs a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Future consideration

additional JESLOG SPIN options

provide several additional options to the JESLOG=SPIN parameter:- ability to spin once a week- adhoc by command- ability to keep the first bit of output
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Eliminate RACINIT 108 error on JWT expiration

When performing a multi-step, e.g RADIUS Challenge/Response MFA Authentication with the IDTDATA SAF Class activated, if the user waits for more than the JWT lefetime between steps, the user sees a quick flash of the message:IKJ56416I RACF RACINIT ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

ISPF Extended Statistics Enhanced Display

Currently ISPF supports extended statistics but fails to display them.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

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