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Option to report silent exception handling in LE

During some performance analysis we discovered in CICS trace a huge amount of S0CA - decimal overflow - interrupts caught and recovered by Language Environment. These were caused by a simple ADD statement in a cobol program which runs in an ILC en...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Request for change to Management of PKCS11 tokens ICSF panel

We are trying to setup on a z/OS LPAR a client-server platform (e.g. Pcomm client to TN3270 server or browser to HTTP server) fully compliant with FIPS 140-2 requirements. To accomplish this task, all TCP/IP AT-TLS policies, security levels and ci...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

collect more data for FTP/TN3270 sessions in MONWRITE

We are enabling all FTP and TN3270 in our environment to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. With FTP we cannot make it default for the entire environment at this time so we must still allow unsecure FTP to occur. PCI compliance “re...
almost 8 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Panel GIMISIDT should display full dataset name

Panel GIMISIDT only displays 26 characters of a dataset name that could be 54 characters if a member of a PDS(E) is used. There is a lot of whitespace on this panel, but if that isn't enough, use a multi-line display for each row in the table.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Support insecure mode in the Web Enablement Toolkit for SSL connections

The curl program provides insecure mode that bypasses verification of certificates during an SSL connection and allows the connection to proceed. This is not ideal in a production environment but very useful during application development when sel...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF - Configuration Assistant Backstores Location

Currently under z/OSMF - Configuration Assistant, there is no option to specifiy where files are stored. This causes issues in our environment where 87 copies of z/OSMF exist. We currentlly have /var/ directory setup that is maintanence specific a...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

SYSLOGD new parm data class

For SYSLOGD a new parameter 'dataclass' under BeginArchiveParms should be available to define the dataclass for archive datasets.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide ISPF table IMPORT/EXPORT as ISPF services

Our applications use ISPF table for storing data, manipulating and accessing table entries from high level language programs using ISPF services. User also have a need to process the data statistically and graph the data. Currently, user has to ma...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

PLAC0811-1429 System logger monitoring in RMF III

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0811-1429 System logger monitoring in RMF IIIHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: RecognizedClosed ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 5 Not under consideration

PFI0311-1385 Provide RACF/RRSF for z/VM

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: lutz.lasthaus-freund@f-i.deSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0311-1385 Provide RACF/RRSF for z/VMHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Re...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

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