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Need a DISPLAY command for PROTECTED output and CANCEL of only PROTECTED output

I'd like to know how much PROTECTED output is on my SPOOL but there is no command to display it by that status. If I check BPXAS or ASCHINT status I see some PROT and some that are not. How much PROT do I have altogether? Can I cancel "only" PROT ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

allow the query of all crypto related information via BCPii

Currently it is not possible to retrieve all crypto related information regarding from the image profile of a single LPAR via BCPii.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 7 Delivered

Enabling wildcard support for jobname in PORTS reservation

Enable wildcard character support for jobname in PORTS reservations (as already available in VTAM Major Node definitions).
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Allow to upload a workflow and an input file from a workstation

Currently while creating workflow it is possible specify XML file and an input file locations only on z/OS host. Is this possible to implement uploading of the files using browser?
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

JES2 performance problem for duplicated name JOBS

Santander Bank depends heavily for their daily processing on submitting duplicated name JOBS in hundreds and sometimes thousands while communicating with their external customers or what they call CORPORATE CONNECTIONS. JES2 performance needs to b...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

z/VM DEFINE CPUPOOL command with 2 decimals

As cpu:s become more effective, we need more granularity on CPU POOL definitions. Easiest way would be to add one decimal for the CPU POOL definition, so that currently possible 2.1 could be defined as 2.15 for example.
about 8 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

PKI services for z/os : remove ldap CRL distribution point.

In our shop we sign sub CA's for open systems with PKI services for z/OS. While signing the certificate signing request, we add the HTTP-CRL distribution point.As a result, the actual sub CA certificate will contain 2 CRL distrubution points. 1. o...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Delivered

remote console access: KVM

remote console access to the end user in IaaS provider use case when there is any issue for them to connect to the VM in regular ways
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Delivered

Support extra wide output from "ps"

As we start to set up a Java environment on z/OS, we are finding that some of the tools that we have on Linux (RHEL in our case) are not available on z/OS. Please support extra wide output in the ps command, similar to how Linux gives the -w optio...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

We would need ICSF hash service to support BCRYPT.

We opened the SFSW TS004628935 because our development team wanted to hash passwords using BCRYPT (based on Blowfish). They confirmed me that OWH hashing service cant´t use BCRYPT. They suggest me to open a RFE to ask if it is possible that ICSF h...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Delivered