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Enhance JCL TYPRUN=SCAN testing to JES2 Symbol Replace in Instream Data

In z/OS 2.1 TYPRUN=SCAN finds more Job Errors if INTERPRET JES is activated in JESparm. This is nice, but i´ld like to see an additional enhancement related to z/OS 2.1 JES2 Symbol Replacement in Instream Data using//xyz DD *,SYMBOLS=(...) TYPRUN=...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Enhance AT-TLS filters to allow hostname specification for RemoteAddr

For AWS ELB (Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing), we need support destination host name (instead of IP only) for attaching an SNI header using TTLSRules AWS Load Balancer externally uses multiple IP addresses of the range assigned to the e...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

z/OS resilience - GRS

Hello! We faced some crises where the root cause was very similar. An Address Space that held an important component off z/OS. We can share an example when a STC did an ENQUEUE on the RACF Base and did not release it again. To release this ENQUEUE...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Future consideration

RACFVM: Provide commands to display the current MFA server and to change which MFA server is active.

Having this functionality would be useful to z/VM Systems Programmers and for RACF/MFA Security Administrators as a way to quickly assess and potentially alter the current MFA server environment if it is determined to be necessary. For z/VM system...
about 1 year ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

USS shell should complain invalid hex numbers within a command

Copying from ASCII generates hex numbers which are not valid under EBCDIC. Using this hex numbers for example in a mv/cp command as filename makes it impossible to work with the filename, because the wrong hex numbers are included in the filename ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Future consideration

Option to ignore CRL expiry date in TR34 ICSF services

TR34 RKL ICSF services CSNDT34B and CSNDT34D uses CRL from CA for generating the TOKEN. One of the CA is sending a CRL valid for only one day, but confirmed that the EPP does not validate the CRL End date. Is it possible to provide an option to ig...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Support special characters [<>&"] in the password (PW) attribute of the HTTPPROXY element in the SCMPCLNT DD input stream

We are trying to use the "network delivery" function of SMP/E. At our site we need to go through a proxy server to access the Internet. The proxy server requires a "service account" userid and password to be authenticated using NTLM. However, the ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

ISPF EDIT NUM BLANKS mode

ISPF should support an EDIT NUM mode that behaves like numbers are on... except that it does nothing with the numbers "field" except set them to blanks. Suggestion is a NUM ON BLANKS command that would put the ISPF EDIT session into this mode. Alo...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

DFSMShsm for files Incremental File Recovery

We currently use DFSMShsm to back up entire ZFS data sets, as well as Spectrum Protect to back up individual files. When we need to quickly recover a ZFS to the most current state, we first recover the entire ZFS data set, followed by a selective ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Request for a conversion code in the Toolkit for COBOL

We have a zSeries COBOL program using the HTTP z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit to act as http client. The program receives a JSON string from the partner system, which is parsed by the toolkit HWTJPARS, then values are extracted using HWTJSRCH....
over 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

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