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Ability to recover unsucessful save of z/OS CA BackingStore

The z/OSMF Configuration Assistant needs the ability to recover unsuccessfully stored BackingStore files. In the event of a write failure while saving the backingStore, there is no method to recover the changes that were made prior to the save.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Z/OSMF Email Notification facility

The Z/OSMF email notification facility uses smtp along with a userid and password,We do not use smtp for our email.we use Outgoing mail transfer agent (MTA): mta.kp.orgPort: 25We don't use any USERID/Password to connect to the MTA and we don't use...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Need SMFLIM to win over IEFUSI

After APAR OA48746, SMFLIM will always defer region limits to IEFUSI settings. This causes problems in our migration from IEFUSI to SMFLIM, such that we are completely unable to devise a safe migration plan. Our IEFUSI will set region for all step...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Not under consideration

FTP multiple listening ports

FTP-Enable ability to Listen on multiple ports using ONE(1) started task
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Need CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to also support ECC PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt

Currently we make use of CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to perform PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt with RSA keys. There is a requirement by our clients to also support ECC PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 6 Not under consideration

manual Pairing for DFSMShsm frbackup

We use the frbackup command for copying our DB2 Environment in a new SYSPLEX. Therefor it is necessary that the first Volume of the source SG is copied to the first Volume in the backup Pool. The HSM make these Pairing more or less randomized. So ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

Increase FTP Support for files with a large LRECL > 32767

We are running into several instances where application areas are unable to FTP files with large LRECL formats. The most common size being encountered so far is 32768. When conducting FTP with the LRECL X command the data still gets truncated/corr...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ISPF alignment in wide emulators

If screen (of emu) ist greater than nn*80, allow to specifiy alignment of (ISPF) screen. Today, alignment is always in the middle. Allow to specify align(left) or align(right).
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Sub Group Capping function

Our customer hopes that sub group capping setting can be defined in group capping. When LPARs defined as sub group cap use the limit of sub group cap limit,capping begins and the rest of resource(=Group Cap Limit - Sub Group Cap Limit) is used amo...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Not under consideration

OUTPUT OF H/W SETTING PARAMETERS IN A LIST FORMAT

It's needed the function to output processor's setting parameters(HMC/SE parameters) in a list format.ex. NTP enable/disable
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

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