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Enable copy of TKDS keystore in ICSF virtual storage to be dynamically refreshed

With reference to the case that I raised recently, TS021044974, I was advised by IBM that TKDS keystore in ICSF virtual storage can only be refreshed from TKDS VSAM by shutting down and restart ICSF started task. There is no option from an ICSF ad...
3 months ago in z/OS / ICSF Future consideration

OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking Planned for future release

Move settings of password phrase rules from ICHPWX11-exit to RACF SETROPTS

Today we use the Exit ICHPWX11 to manage our rules for RACF Password Phrases (e.g. length of Password Phrase, valid Characters). Unfortunately the exit is not supported by IBM. A sample is delivered with SYS1.SAMPLIB, but the most current version ...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

HMC OSA Advanced Facilities browser navigation - tab closing

The OSA Advanced Facilities task presents a list of available processors to select from. After selecting an object, and viewing the OSA panel, when the 'close' button is pressed, instead of returning to the list of available processor objects, the...
12 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Under review

Add Additional Arabic Characters to z/OS Unicode 13488 to 420 Conversion

U+0625 - إ - ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW cannot be translated to CCSID 420. There are no HAMZA BELOW code points or Ligature code points for Alef With Hamza below in the current translation table. Currently, there are normalizations in the...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode Planned for future release

IEBPTPCH includes a module IEBPPCH1 which includes SIIS coding and it causes increase CPU TIME under z15 or z16.

This client migrated hardware from zEC12 to z15 and z16 with z/OS V2R1 to V2R5. IEBPTPCH CPU time increased four times after migration of hardware and z/OS. We opened a case as TS019579686 and SME recommended us to open IBM ideas as follows. From ...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities Not under consideration

Command to display how much full is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in given moment)

Dear IBM Team, there is now way how to find out how much occupied is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in DSLIST 3.4 it always shows 100 %, so this is not relevant). There is just warning message IFB080E once it is 90 % full and then message IFB081I once it is...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids Future consideration

Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy structure's PREFLIST

Currently the maximum CFs per each structure's PREFLIST parameter in a CFRM policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES Future consideration

Increase the SET LKFAC limit above 250 users for use by guest operating systems (TPF)

Increase the MPLF virtual DASD locking limit above the 250 user limit using SET LKFAC. In 1998 the LKFAC limit was increased from 64 users to 250 users (VM61408). One of the reasons for this increase was to allow more TPF guests to run LKFAC to su...
25 days ago in z/VM Submitted

z/OS resolver should comply with the requirement in RFC 1034 to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names

RFC 1034 requires to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names. Based on a recent incident that we experienced, it seems that the z/OS resolver does not do this. We are requesting the z/OS resolver to comply wit...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

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