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NFS man pages missing

The following NFS man pages missing: crnl2nl, mvslogin, mvslogout, mvs2os2, nfsstat, nl2crnl, os22mvs, showattr, showmount
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Not under consideration

Populate STORGRP ACS variable during Class Transition

When doing a DFHSM Class Transition, environment SPMGCLTR, supply the Storage Group that the dataset currently resides in to the ACS logic most likely in the &STORGRP variable
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

Provide NOTERMUACC Functionality Equivalent for SERVAUTH

Please look to provide a functional equivalent of the NOTERMUACC Parameter on UserIDs/Groups for the SERVAUTH class, specifically NETACCESS in particular. This could potentially be achieved by expanding the NOTERMUACC Parameter to cover SERVAUTH c...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under 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

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

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

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

When an enclave is quiesced from the ENC panel, document in the syslog what tasks and parent tasks are quiesced.

Today, if you quiesce an enclave, there is no auditing information injected into the syslog as to the tasks being quiesced. More importantly, it's parent task is not documented in the syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

avoid WTOR ICH304D like WTOR ICH302D with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.

Following APAR OA63091 (with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.) issue of WTOR ICH302D "ICH302D REPLY Y TO ALLOW ANOTHER ATTEMPT OR N TO REVOKE USERID userid." can be avoided. I propose to extend this behav...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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