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Modify IODF-Activate TEST to check for Devices in Hiperswap Policy

Please change the IODF Activate TEST option. so that devices in Hyperswap State are shown as error-message and an Activate would fail.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

SMS Allocation rules prevents data set copies from restored volume backups

We perform full volume backups and restores from an MVS system. When the original SMS managed volume and the restored volume (using a different VOLSER) label are brought online to the same system where the original volumes data sets are also catal...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Future consideration

Improved usage reporting for PDSE Hiperspaces

Provide statistics on PDSE and PDSE1 Hiperpsace memory usage to help customers understand if they would benefit from additional meomory and if the data sets using the Hiperspaces are good candidates for caching. Currently, information is only prov...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Allow usage of z/OSMF JWT tokens by multiple sessions using the same user ID

We are using new APIs to obtain JWT tokens (/zosmf/services/authenticate) from our automated scripts that use other z/OSMF REST APIs with the obtained. After the script completes, it calls the DELETE method to invalidate the token that it obtained...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide a method of predicting in advance the results of a DFSMSdss SPACEREL action

Provide a method by which it's possible to predict the result of a DFSMSdss SPACEREL command without actually performing the release, to allow it to be run against only those volumes that will give the best results.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

zERT - Allow filtering for cipher suites

Please add a filter criteria for CipherSuites, like 009D or C027. So it is a quick view over used certificates, and we could reduce our AT-TLS rules for longer unused ciphers. Alternative would be a filtering with multiple parts, like AES_CBC_128 ...
12 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add LDAP configuration option to restrict specific IP addresses from connecting to the server

As it stands currently there is no easy way for an LDAP administrator to prevent/block specific IP addresses from connecting to the server. The admin must rely on other products like TCP, we recently found out that NETACCESS is not a viable soluti...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 2 Future consideration

Enhance Security Configuration Assistant plug-in to export review & fix suggestions to a csv file.

Makes it easier to configure z/OSMF
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

have CEEZ1IPT fail more gracefully

When an application is using PIPI, and the PIPI Main code creates children but then completes back to PIPI, future services that need the IPT will fail with an Abend0C4 in CEEZ1IPT due to not getting a CAA address from CEEARLU.CEEZ1IPT needs valid...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Allow the number of JES2 NODES to be reduced without a cold start

We have a number of JES2 environments which have evolved over time. Decades ago, someone decided that it would be useful to define the NODENUM on the NJEDEF init parm as 9999, meaning we now have many systems defined with 9999 possible nodes. We a...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration