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zOS CommSrv OMPROUTE should report 'NEW STATE 128' after successful recovery from 'OSPF ADJACENCY FAILURE'

Write a message to the OMPROUTE and to the system log when OSPF adjacancy was successfully recovered to 'STATE 128' after an 'EZZ7921I OSPF adjacency failure'.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

bottle neck in the SCLP component which caused delay in sending messages between BCPii and SE.

Timeout problem when using GDPS script to automate loading 6 LPARs for system IPL. A timeout occurs in the 5th or 6th GDPS LOAD command. To bypass the timeout , it have to insert some time gap between the system IPLs. In such case, the overall IPL...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

OPEN/CLOSE macro execute form last bit indicator

The Execute form of the OPEN and CLOSE macros do not set the last entry indicator in the option flag byte on the OPEN/CLOSE parameter list. When writing reentrant code this requires the programmer to set it explicitly by copying the list form or s...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 1 Not under consideration

Align keytype in R_datalib with CERTPRVT in template

Align keytype in R_datalib with CERTPRVT in template==================================================== CERTDATA segment of the GENERAL template has defined CERTPRVT as:v X'00000000' – No associated keyv X'00000001' – PKCS DER-encodedv X'00000002...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

PARSER needs to be able to handle other Whitespace characters

There are times when we have engineers cutting and pasting things into the configurations. Due to translation issues sometimes pasting from an app (Word or Onenote) gets translated to other white space characters. We have had multiple issues over ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Wrapping symmetric keys using ECC

Need the ability to export and import symmetric keys using stronger Elliptic Curve technology. The CSNDSYX and CSNDSYI/CSNDSYI2 APIs do not support using an ECC key pair for wrapping key material.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 6 Not under consideration

Requesting enhancement to allow Hex assigned domain number for crypto card naming convention

Wells Fargo Bank has asked IBM to submit a request for enhancement to allow a crypto card to have a hex assigned Domain Number verses decimal only for naming convention and management simplicity. This would enable large complex customers the abili...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

TLS Failure Message Enhancements :: System SSL error code added to all TLS handsahke/authentication failure messages

Currently when an FTP fails we get a cryptic message such as the following in the FTP server ID=FTPSEC100168 SECURE fails Reason=4 Text=The TLS handshake failed or in a client connection EZY2640I Using dd:SYSFTPD=SYS5.TCPIP.PUBLIC(CFTPSEC) for loc...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

OSA hangs when SVIPA and DVIPA range overlap and FTPS job is run

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over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Resolver DISPLAY Command

On the current system, there is no mechanism to confirm the set of Resolver options in use for an application. Enhance the MODIFY RESOLVER,DISPLAY command to provide an option to report these value, preferably including the files or data sets used...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

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