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HMC <-> Support Element Communication must comply with PCI DSS / security requirements

To be compliant with the current PCI DSS requirements, certain cipher suites and signature algorithm must be used for the encrypted communication between HMC and Support Element. In contrast to the Web Frontend communication it is not possible to ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Improve skulker performance

With SFTP, each transfer creates a log file. With heavy usage, this can create thousands of log files daily. Using skulker to delete these files is no longer feasible since it can only delete around 4K files per hour using almost an entire engine ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

Additional Granularity for FIXCDS commands

we would like additional granularity on FIXCDS commands to allow us to lock specific function such as delete and patch away under elevated access, while leaving things like display under standing access
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Delivered

TCPIP startup message

There are a lot of tasks depending on TCPIP startup.Actually there is no real TCPIP startup finished message issued that can an automation tool pick up. There should be a message issued when all functions of TCPIP are ready to do work so that the ...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Remove reliance of the IZUFPROC as the default logon procedure to be used for RESTAPI_FILE statement in IZUPRMxx Parmlib member

Under zOS 3.1, using the zOS Change Tracker plugin for zOSMF and NOT having IZUFPROC as the logon procedure to be used for the RESTAPI_FILE statement in IZUPRMxx Parmlib member, results in an error message as follows - IKJ56712I Abnormal command.....
8 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 1 Delivered

DFSMShsm PARTREL RC08 RSN94 is not reflected in MIGLOG via a message

We recently had issues with very large striped datasets that filled our storage.We couldn't find why DFSMSHSM did not do partrel processing on these datasets.Turn out that DFSMSHSM treats stiped datasets as multivolume datasets and hence does not ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered

Prompt user if they try to start a second z/OSMF Workflow instance from the same Workflow Definition.

Some z/OSMF might not be suited to having multiple instances running in parallel. However, because there is currently no way to know from a Workflow instance which Workflow Definition it was created from, it is possible to start a second instance ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

CSSMTP default MAIL FROM parametrisation needed

For security Reasons our MS Exchange Configuration requires that the Mailheader always contains the “MAIL FROM:” statement filled with a valid Emailadress.In the case that CSSMTP tries so send a mail notification for an undeliverable mail to the s...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Support RACF-group as step RunAs-approver

We want to be able to put in a RACF-group as a RunAs-approver in a workflow step and use it in CP&M templates. Currently it only seem to allow for user IDs (fails when trying to use in Software Services).
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

SMP/E SYSMOD Publish Date

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 08/30/2022 Submitter Name: Todd J Gagle (Software Architect) Submitter Email: todd.gagle@broadcom.com Description: The SYSMOD element currently contains several dates associated with PTF. These include INST...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

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