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Allow customer to use zIIP via IWM4ECRE - for ML processing

Please allow customer to call IWM4ECRE for zIIP usage for their home grown ML(machine learning) application on hybrid cloud environment. Without being able to use zIIPs it would be prohibitively expensive which does not allow customers to fully ut...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Cipher preference order when using JCECCARACFKS

When using JCECCARACFKS for pgp certificate creation, EF is not honoring on export option -eA racf algorithms for cipher preference order. Neither does it help when overriding those options for encryption and hashing algorithms with -cipher-name o...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Not under consideration

Cleint Certificates should not be required when specifying SECURE LOGIN as REQUIRED and SECURE PASSWORD as OPTIONAL.

Many FTP clients from various government and non government organizations connect to us. Some use Z: OS clients and some use non Z:OS clients. The administrators of these clients have various expertise. We wish to migrate as many of the clients to...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow filtering out data sets with unsupported allocations

For example, allow ignoring PDS data sets with "0" directory blocks. When the option is enabled, such data sets would be reported and the overall return code would be set to "4" / Warning rather than error "8" .
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Not under consideration

Additional protection needed for critical data, in order to further prevent accidental deletion

On August 20 our storage team caused an unfortunate issue, while cleaning a volume on the behest of the customer DB Systel. On the LPAR BLP7, an outage was caused, as the active primary and backup RACF db-s were deleted. While this was remedied an...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Obviate need for base register when using EZASMI interface

Right now use of the EZASMI interface to TCP/IP sockets programming requires a base register. It would be nice if that were not the case because it hampers development of baseless programs. I'd find it reasonable if a solution were provided based ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

in the panel editing: I would like the option of exporting the panel definitions into a text-source format with tools around it to be able to create pannels with ISPF statements. The definition should fit in a functional design, also context sensitive info for the end-user.

shorten the distance between functional design and program
8 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Add additional AVGREC sizes to Space definitions in JCL and IDCAMS

With the large size volumes and larger amounts of data going to datasets, it would be helpful if the AVGREC and DEFINE statements allow more options. Currently AVGREC has B(ytes) and K(ilobyte) and M(egabytes). and DEF VSAM has K(ilobyte) and M(eg...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

zERT Enforcement Policy and Policy Agent not adhering to same implementation

When using a zERT Enforcement Policy with two or more Traffic Descriptors, Policy Agent is not able to handle those as a single rule and creates artificially additionalrules for each Traffic Descriptor associated with the zERT defined rule, append...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SETROPTS PRIORITY WHEN RACF DATASHARING

Currently when a SETROPTS REFRESH is sent from a LPAR and it is a member of a sysplex and RACF is configured in datasharing with Sysplex Communication, the REFRESH is executed in all the LPARs (except the one that sent the command) under the *MAST...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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