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Enhance CDA for Signed Payload and Improve Tracing

The Provider files do not currently have the parms needed to support SIGNED Payload, currently it's only support "UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD" to use a signed payload we need to enhance CDA. Currently there is no tracing until the TOOLKIT is called as that i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

JES2 EMAIL DELIVERY SERVICES Customization

Provide ability to customize subject line when using JES2 EMAIL DELIVERY Services. Today we have to open the email to associate a jobname job number, system and rc of the job which is not convenient.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

Allow Changing Password from z/OSMF Login

Currently, when a user with an expired password attempts to login to z/OSMF they will receive a rejection to their logon. Users should be presented with a process to update their password from within z/OSMF itself. The current user experience is u...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

Download and upload datasets and dataset members with non-alphanumeric, non-national special characters

This request is similar to RFE ID 142345 - Download and upload datasets and dataset members with names in different encodings than IBM-1047 using REST API. Product: Zowe CLI, Zowe Explorer, Postman Actor: User attempting to download or modify a da...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

HWTHCONN - Creation of a Customized Connect Timeout option

Developers building new applications using z/OS HTTP/HTTPS callable services has no way to set a customizable connect timeout when calling HWTHCONN. So, when a server isn't available, the call is kept blocked until it finally timed out after 75 se...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 3 Delivered

Support for GA2 to GA1 driver downgrade option

While planing to upgrade z14 GA1 to GA2 driver, the customer asks IBM to prepare guaranteed contingency revert plan in the case of GA2 driver causes the customer's production system failure. Unlike MCL apply, GA2 driver upgrade includs lots of new...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Delivered

There are no ++ASSIGNs for PTFs in the global zone when there are no PTFs to be shipped in the order.

Customer requests one or more PTFs, but the result is PTF not found. SMP/E sees the PTF-not-found response and immediately submits another order, requesting only HOLDDATA. The customer's perceived trouble is ++ASSIGN statements are not provided in...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 6 Delivered

PCIT0506-970 Provide native MVS dataset support with SSH for secure FTP

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Julieta.RossSubmitters Company: Citigroup PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PCIT0506-970 Provide native MVS dataset support with SSH for secure FTPHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent S...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 3 Delivered

RMM shall keep Vol/Dataset information for all volumes, till TS77* Expire-Hold is reached

TS77* LWorm data set and volume information are cleared when scratch. This information is very important when volumes are deleted by accident.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Delivered

HMC LDAP authentication should recognize RACF GROUP to determine user Authority

Currently the Z HMC supports RACF LDAP for local user authentication but the user must be locally defined. The users authority is also determined by locally defined definitions. The HMC code needs to be updated so RACF GROUPS can be defined for HM...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

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