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support for xdomain over proxy up to n number of redirects

Redirects happen. Even when using a proxy server. I have an issue where an external site wants to redirect to AWS.COM to handle the data transfer and the current toolkit does not allow it. This seems so obvious as to it should have always been the...
4 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Holder can't be FORCED when their is SYSIEFSD ENQ contention

When the QEDIT assembler service is invoked to free a CIB, an exclusive ENQ on SYSIEFSD Q10 is obtained to serialize the CSCB chain. While holding the ENQ, a SPOST is issued to ensure that all in progress POSTS to the address space have completed ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

Structure-level control of CF CPU utilization

As discussed in PMR, we had a high consumption problem of a WMQ structure in a CF impacting other users of the CF. Consumption CF reached 90%, and the consumption of structure in question has reached 80% of CF.We need a way to control the use of t...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

OMVS TSOCMD does *not* honor IKJTABLS

IKJTABLS is used for the TSO environment and one would expect it to be honored with the tsocmd under OMVS but it is not. This was discovered when using tsocmd parmlib and it failed but the parmlib command worked under TSO. Added parmlib to the aut...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 5 Future consideration

Add Support for Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) Header in z/OS

The Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) IPv6 Destination Options (DO) Header is defined in : http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ippm-6man-pdm-option/ (This draft has been adopted by the IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Working Group of ...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

ATTLS, like IPSEC, should offload encryption to ziip engines

IPSEC has offloaded the encryption processing to ziip processors, and ATTLS should do the same.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance OMVS cp command

Enhance the OMVS cp command by allowing the user to set an option, perhaps via an environmental variable, to increase the number of buffers used for the copy.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

Customer is requesting an RFE to provide a progress indicator for CFCC image activation.

Due to the large amount of storage we define in the CFCC image, it is taking 10 minutes or more for the CFCC Operating System Messages console to come up after we activate a CFCC image. The image activation itself that you initiate at the HMC comp...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Planned for future release

Option To Set A Logoff Timer For Users Showing As Disconnected

We have noticed that when some users are in Adapter panels and LPAR Controls (Possibly others) evem if they only have view access that they seem to lock the task out so others cannot access it. This seems to then remain locked even when the userid...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Create new "last login timestamp" attribute in LDAP for entries

RACF provides an attribute, LAST-ACCESS, which is mapped to racfLastAccess in SDBM which can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.glpa200/tivrff.htm#racfcf This searchable attribute returns th...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

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