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ICSF: Allow us to restrict ARCHIVED keys for decryption only

We want to deploy Pervasive Encryption for Datasets and do not want ARCHIVEd keys to be able to be used for encryption, just decryption.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Delivered

CMS/zCMS & Pipe updates to support TLS

The IOCTL interface in TCP/IP supports client and server transition to and from TLS, but only from C and Assembler. Rexx and CMS Pipelines needs to be updated so those environments can use TLS encryption as well.
almost 7 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

All color adjustment of status fields.

It can be extremely difficult to identify systems "not active" and "not operating" because they use the same icon (X) and color in the status column. In the "Classical view" it was easy to quickly identify different states of objects based on thei...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

DFSMS ACS variable to recognise a ZFS

It would be helpful if there was an ACS variable to recognise a ZFS dataset in either the &DSNTYPE (as for HFS) or &RECORG read only variables. ZFS datasets have certain characteristics that need particular kind of management. For example ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Delivered

ISPF 3.2 support for DSKEYLBL

ISPF 3.2 support for the DSKEYLBL keyword; which is used for pervasive dataset encryption. The current ISPF 3.2 panel does not support it, so the end user needs to code JCL to allocate a dataset for pervasive encryption; which slows down implement...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

Lock tape creation until DFSMSRMM is running

When the DFSMSRMM initialization routine is defined in the parmlib IEFSSNxx member, it should lock tape creation even if the product is not enabled by the parmlib IFAPRDxx member. It would only be locked until DFRMM is recording.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Delivered

AMAPDUPL with DHE/ECDHE cipher suites

When using AMAPDUPL with https on www.secure.ecurep.ibm.com TLS 1.2 is required, which is nice. From TS003255137 I know that the server supports the following cipher suites:•C030 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384•C02F TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_12...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 3 Delivered

Don't truncate column EXCP-CNT in DA Panel, instead show **

Please change the behavior in the DA (Display Active) Panel to show ** instead of truncating the numbers in the case the column-width is not big enough.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

Enhance zERT to Support Importing from GDGs

Add the ability to import all generations of a GDG when specifying the base. When testing this some generation datasets would get stuck and stay allocated to the z/OSMF ID. This would prevent other jobs from accessing those datasets and would requ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

z/OSMF Workflow reverse completed tasks

Hi, I would like to have an action in the z/OSMF Workflow that you can reverse the completed status, so that if you mistakenly complete a task that you didn't want to do you can do that.Jerry
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

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