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design requirement to have DFSMSdss check the status of the GDS once the COPY is completed

Design requirement to have DFSMSdss check the status of the GDS once the COPY is completed to ensure that the status has not changed from the status it had prior to the target being allocated. Since the DFSMSdss stop started after the GDS was crea...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

automated access to IBM Z Security Portal HOLDDATA needed

The current process for accessing z/OS security patch information requires browser based access to ResourceLink. We need an automated way to download the Security (Sec/Int=Y) HOLDDATA from the IBM Z Security Portal similar to as we already have fo...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Reconnecting OTIS after the corresponding Db2 was started in Maintenance Mode and later in Operating Mode ( OAM recognize this this )

When a Db2 instance is stopped and started normally the corresponding OAM and OTIS reconnect to it as expected. If this Db2 is stopped and started in Maintenance Mode OAM acknowledges this and reconnect to this Db2 when it is started afterwards in...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

Increase / disable the size limit of 100 MB for uploading files from our workstation.

Some vendors don´t have the option to sFTP files direct from their servers to mainframe environment. SMEs needs to download required data (from vendor web site) in their workstation and upload it using WINscp or any other vendor tool (license cost...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Tolerate %NOCOMMENT and %COMMENT in initial /* rexx */ comment of a USS Rexx script

Under TSO/E, one may specify %NOCOMMENT in the first line /* rexx */ identifier as a signal to the TSO/E Rexx processor and to VLF to compress the in-storage source by removing all comment text, leaving just /**/. This saves storage during executi...
5 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Possibility to create CSR files with key length of 4096 bits

When creating a new CSR file on an IBM Z HMC there is no option to select the key size. The generated certificate request has a fixed key size of 2048. In several countries especially for Germany it is a recommendations of the local authorities th...
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Future consideration

List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add a code stub to the z/OS LDAP examples for a basic authenticated session

Please add a new example file or commented section to the existing sample files found in /usr/lpp/ldap/examples/ that uses the LDAP client API to create an authenticated session through SSL on TLS V1.3. A working example would be a good basis to a...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

zCX: Personal and technical Userids mustn't be in the same group / results in workflow failures / rerunability

The zCX workflow says for the SAF group to be specified during provisioning: "Specify an existing SAF group name to allow that group access to this IBM z/OS Container Extensions appliance instance directory. The provisioning user of this IBM zCX a...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Enhance z/OS IP Filtering so that rules can be defined to control access to ports that containers in zCX are listening on

Currently z/OS IP filtering only allows rules to be defined to control access to the TCPIP address that a zCX Instance uses. In a zCX instance, we can run a number of docker containers, each listening on different TCPIP Ports. Each of these contai...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

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