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use milli-second time stamps in ISPF Gateway

To understand where ISPF Gateway spends most of its time while processing a request, we need a higher time-stamp resolution (milli-seconds is preferred) in the messages issued by ISPF Gateway.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

SMP/E apply bad ptf

There is a timing window from a ptf has been marked pe where a sup'ing ptf is not marked pe.The error can now be introduced without any warning to the system by apply'ing the sup'ing ptf.Smp/e has to check for this and add this pe from the informa...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

racf define replace

Make it easier to maintain certificates
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

De-Mystifying SNMPv3 configuration and eliminating IOBSNMP

The configuration process for SNMPv3 is (to put it politely) utterly horrible. The snmpd.conf file contains what appears to be a random set of statements with no obvious way of correlating or ordering them. An addtional program - pwtokey - is requ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Row count not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL

Row count is not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL. This means that applications that dynamically issue TBSARG will have to loop through all rows, determine if the row is visible or not, counting the visible rows, and finally determine which row is curr...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Reset the PASSASIS flag in the user profile back to 0.

When changing the Global password setting to Mixedcase but then subsequently backing out the change for whatever reason to NoMixedcase leaves the PASSASIS flag as 1 and does not reset it back to 0. While on Mixedcase some users might have changed ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Collect Client Signature Algorithms with z/ERT

At the moment there is no way - besides collecting traces (AT-TLS, SystemSSL, Packettrace) to gather information about signature (hash) algorithms on TLS connections. We would like to use z/ERT to collect data from the client hello signature algor...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enable AUTOCVT to assume untagged files are ibm-1047

I have been porting several open source applications to USS using the -qascii option on the C/C++ compilers. This works wonderfully when auto conversion is also enabled. The one whole in the auto conversion feature is that it doesn't assume untagg...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Set MSR data set response time targets for automatic tiering with

Currently, automatic tiering is managed at the volume/extent level without knowledge or consideration of the service level objectives for the data sets on the volumes. When caching was introduced, the MSR objective was used to drive must cache/may...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Not under consideration

Allow the LIKE paramenter in JCL to use GDGs or PDS(E) for attributes

Currently to use LIKE in JCL has the following restrictions: DO NOT use LIKE= to model the characteristics of a PDS member coded in JCL, a GDG, or a temporary data set. Also, please note that the EXPDT or RETPD dates are NOT copied by LIKE. LIKE s...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Not under consideration

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