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Automated way to identify needed maintenance

Get an alert that would tell what recent releases are available to be able to stay up to date on maintenance.
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

ISPF SRCHFOR function fails to notify the user when additition hidden options are in place

When using SRCHFOR on the ISPF Command line in option 3.4, it will sometimes not find the string even though it does exist in the list. This can occur when there are other options specified that are not seen by the user unless they enter SRCHFOR (...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance CEEPIPI to reestablish lost condition handling environment

Language Environment Pre-Initialization Services are used to create a reusable runtime environment (RRE), run multiple run-time environments in one multi-tasking region, etc. CEEPIPI is the Language Environment version of the previous language-spe...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Be able to enforce use of FCTOPPRCPRIMARY(PRESMIRREQ) when FASTREPLICATION(PREF) or FASTREPLICATION(REQ) is specified

In a GDPS Metro Mirror environment, use of FASTREPLICATION can lead to devices going into duplex pending state, causing the system to be unable to perform a hyperswap. When FASTREPLICATION(REQ) or FASTREPLICATION(PREF) is in place (either specifie...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Make workflow variable exportable to reuse them as input file

At the moment, the only possibility to save the variables of a workflow is to write a script, which writes them into a file by executing the echo command for every variable. This is not handy at all if you have a lot of variables. It would be grea...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

IPSEC enablement for OSPFv2 with IPv4 to allow for stronger authentication required by the US Government.

Currently, the OSPF Neighbor peering for our US Government contracts leverage MD5 today. We have an open audit finding stating ---> Since MD5 is vulnerable to 'birthday' attacks and may be compromised, routing protocol authentication must use F...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Add Client/Server role indicator into ZERT SMF 119 Subtype 11 Records

The SMF 119 Subtype 11 record (ZERT Detail) does not have any indcation of whether z/OS is the client or server for the connection. This indicator DOES exits in the SMF 119 Subtype 12 (ZERT Summary) records, fields SMF119SS_SAServer , SMF119SS_SAC...
9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

OSA-ICC 1GE Fiber Cards need to support VLAN TAGGING in the ICC Server Configuration Panels

IBM is discontinuing the Copper based OSA that support OSA-ICC consoles. The only available OSA-ICC cards in the future will be FIBER based 1GE cards. In our environment all of our FIBER switches require VLAN tagging. This IDEA is to support a VLA...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

Removing IBM Supplied Security Rules

In an effort to reduce clutter on ZOSMF, on our Security Levels tab in Network configuration Assistant, we would like to request to remove all “IBM Supplied” Security rules. The rules are never used and we find that its presence leaves room for er...
9 months ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

Network Configuration Assistant Install History maintenance

The configuration assistant keeps all the installation history for a stack forever. The only way to reduce the history today is to remove it entirely by copying the stack to a new entity, delete the stack and rename the new entity to the stack nam...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

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