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zERT Network Analyzer - Timezone adjustment with date/time for import

While loading data into zERT the start and end time reported in the 'Data Management History' tab is not the local or system time. It seems to be UTC and this cannot be changed via the Settings. As I would like to see those times in the local time...
6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance Kerberos/SKRBKDC limit to more than 2048 sockets

Currently, there is a hard coded limit of 2048 for the number of parallel open sockets for Kerberos / SKRBKDC (see Msg: EUVF04031E Limit of 2048 sockets exceeded). We're using Kerberos authentication for nearly all of our business transactions to ...
5 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP comply with AUTH by rfc4954

Need to include the AUTH command on CSSMTP component on zOS TCPIP and zVM TCPIP in order to comply with the rfc4954
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 11 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - signature failure

When using RECSIGN and ARECSIGN to sign the records and validate them afterwards and there is an error, it is not clear which of the two signatures failed. However, this is the essential/crucial point of the dual signature. I have to know if the c...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - provided tokens

Currently when two tokens are provided for the validation whereas one is not valid, IFASMFDP only issues:VALIDATION FAILED: RECORDED AND SUPPLIED CRYPTO OPTIONS DO NOT MATCHbut the program would know if the SGINVALIDATE or the ASIGNVALIDATE token ...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

SDSF to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) for Middleware Subsystems on z16 showing boost eligibility and if boost has actually occurred along with type of boost.

There is currently no way to determine whether a Middleware Subsystem running on a z16 is eligible for BOOST without going into the WLM Service Definition --> Classification Rules --> STC and then paging right to check the BOOST column. Not ...
11 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

ISPF: Provide a way to dynamically define a line command table

With the demise of LMAC due to lack of support there needs to be a way to dynamically define an ISPF Edit/View line command table for the life of the Edit/View session. This would over-ride the global_line_command_table from the ispf config. Alter...
12 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit should be site configurable to prevent the Editing of a non-zero PDSE member generation.

Editing a non-zero (non-base) PDSE member generation is asking for trouble for many reasons, the least of which is that non-zero generations are not able to be accessed via JCL or dynamic allocation. After much discussion on PDSEGEN the decision a...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Config Assistant: Support read only mode when backing store is locked

When a user needs to open a backing store in the Configuration Assistant and the backing store is in use by another user, you are presented with the option of canceling or destroying the other user's lock. If the user only needs to view the config...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

In z/OS the client needs a possibility to create keytab files with the option for custom salts to be used with WAS or other Components

Traditionally the keytab utility was shipped with the IBM Java SDK until Java 8 but misses the functionality to use a custom SALT. From Java 11 on, it was not further shipped. IBM z/OS offers a keytab utility but with very limited support to use a...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration