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Add zkey / paes support for the ZFS filesystem encryption

Canonical/Ubuntu is exploring using ZFS native encryption (without LUKS) when deploying on the ZFS Linux filesystem. ZFS is already available on Ubuntu Server for s390x. Currently with LUKS on s390x installers default to using zkey/paes if availab...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Not under consideration

LDAP zOS - internal static group lookup

Create a parameter to choose the objectclass that will be used to search in DB2 for static Groups of a user in function tdbm_get_staticgroups()
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 2 Not under consideration

LDAP zOS - SNMP Monitoring

Implement SNMP Monitoring for directory server RFC2605
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 3 Not under consideration

Search path for DLLs in Executable

Linux has a mechanism to have a default search path embedded in an executable when it tries to load a shared library, equivalent to DLL's on z/OS, called rpath. This path takes precedence over some default search paths such as system search paths ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

z/OS v1.13 EREP full with tracewrt getbuff entries

z/OS v1.13 EREP full with tracewrt getbuff entries :The z/OS EREP buffer size was probably unchanged for the past 15 years. It can not handle today's high rate of erep entries.EREP should be enhanced to be able to handle it.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

Creating alternate master catalog

Trying to create alternate master catalog and doing REPRO steps .
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Wildcard Display for NETSTAT,DEV and OSAINFO INTERFACE NAMEs

Add a wildcard option to netstat,dev and osainfo displays for INTFN
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

DELETE VVR/NVR and misleading ICH408I violation on Master Catalog

When a Storage Administrator attempts DELETE VVR or DELETE NVR on an orphaned component on DASD, and the implied catalog does not match the catalog name within that VVDS record, and, the administrator does NOT have READ access to FACILITY profile ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

DEFINE USERCATALOG and Master Catalog UPDATE Authority Bypass

Storage Administration staff members should be specifically allowed to perform usercatalog recoveries without the provision of master catalog UPDATE authority. Currently, when a Storage Administrator attempts to Define or Connect a Usercatalog, UP...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

FTP Delete with the Purge option

We need the ability to delete datasets where the EXPDT has not expired from within FTP. Such as the Purge option on the IDCAMS Delete command.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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