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Enable alternate credentials for use with OAM's cloud support

Today, the cloud data access (CDA) component of DFSMS (used by OAM's object support) only allows a single set of credentials to be associated with a specified cloud provider (container). There are circumstances (perhaps a disaster recovery test) w...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

DFSORT Edit Masks create inacurate information

Current DFSORT Edit Masks do not allow the ability to show a decimal value without a leading zero before the decimal point. With a specification of: M-AE-AMOUNT,EDIT=(SIIIIIIIII.TT),SIGNS=(+,-),C'~',The value returned for 0.34 is just "34" - WITH ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Delivered

Control GDG index limits

would like to be able to control gdg index limits, like the enchancement for 'noscratch' & 'scratch' attributes coming out in zos 2.2 parmlib
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 6 Delivered

dynamic changes for HW Crypto definitions in z/VM w/o IPL of z/VM

Allow dynamic changes of HW crypto support definitions in z/VM without the need of performing an IPL of z/VMIn an existing z/VM environment we had assigned a HW-Crypto queue to a z/VM LPAR (processor 1 Domain 4). When adding a CRYPTO statement to ...
over 9 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Implement Policy Agent PBR support for IPv6

Add Policy Agent Policy Based Routing (PBR) support for IPv6 with the same functions that it has for IPv4. The PBR functionality that currently exists for IPv4 should be carried forward to IPv6. Also update Policy Agent Configuration Assistant to ...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

z/OSMF zERT-Plugin Allow Configurable Temp.Database

The zERT-Plugin in z/OSMF allows to import SMF Data Type 119 Subtype 12.Reports can be used to get an overview to non-secured ports and to be able to plan activity to close / reconfigure such critical connections.Each Report uses multible Tables i...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Change restConnector-1.0 to restConnector-2.0 in izuznagui.<fmid>.xml file

For BMC AMI Ops for Java Environments which we use to measure our JVMs on z/OS we need to specify feature restConnector-2.0 in server.xml. z/OS 2.4 delivers izuznagui.<fmid>.xml file for z/OSMFPlugin IBM zERT Network Analyzer. This file spec...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

SSL connections

HI z/OS TCP/IP to cut an SMF record that indicates if connection is SSL enabled or not. SMF119 needs Policy Agent to be used for SSL. How to identify what connections are using SSL, from within an application, e.g. Cics Transaction Gateway.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

Increase the max engine limit from 256 to higher number

System: z/OSActor: Please increase the max engine limit from 256 to higher number on HMC for a lparDescription:Currently the max engine limit is set to 256 which includes sum of initial and reserved cp and ziip which is again multiplied by 2. We n...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Delivered

Provide z/OS HiperSockets Layer 2 and converged interface support

There are two related issues described here:1. System z HiperSockets provides Operating Systems with two modes of access to the HS channel ("internal LAN"): 1. Layer 2 mode (firmware routes frames using MAC address within fully formed IEEE 802.3 f...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

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