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"How to Power" "The General- Velocity-360-Wave-Compact-Disk-2026"

Potential Uses of Crystalline Silica, Quartz Glass, and Iron in a Layered Power Application If you are considering a layered structure for a power-related application (e.g., energy storage, thermal management, or electromagnetic shielding), crysta...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support Not under consideration

Make Console Dump capture zIIP-eligible, enable dump processing BOOST capability, add dedicated real storage for Dump Services.

Are you tired of reading partial dumps from customers? Well we are tired of capturing them, and we're tired of them taking a whole minute to complete. I would like to see dump processing run outside the normal GP workload dispatching, possibly on ...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids Under review

General-Velocity 360-Wave-Compact-Disk

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2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS Submitted

Availability of new unicode Dirham symbol (U+20C3)

Regulatory: On 27 March 2025, the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) introduced a new symbol for the UAE Dirham (AED).The official currency symbol—a capital "D" crossed by two horizontal lines— to establish the dirham as an international currency and...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode Under review

restrict the use of 3 or more consecutive characters in RACF passphrase exit IRRPHREX

To comply with RBC LASS requirements, we need to restrict usage of consecutive characters in passphrases as we do in passwords. The IBM IRRPWREX (password exit) exec includes the ability to restrict usage of consecutive characters by setting Pwd_n...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

Enhance IOS Channel Path Recovery to Detect and Isolate Persistently Degraded Paths

The current IOS channel path recovery mechanism is effective at detecting and recovering from channel path failures based on qualifying error thresholds within a configured time interval. However, there are scenarios in which a channel path may re...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS Submitted

Add new field Last-logon or Last-used to show the actual date/time when the ID was last used/logged on. The field LAST-ACCESS is not useful because ALU command update the field.

This is useful so we know when was the last time the ID was used. (vs. the last time the ID was change (ALU or Resumed)) without a using a custom process to process SMF record and update a custom field.
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

IHS 9.0 mod_authnz_saf does not support MFA / password phrase authentication via Basic Auth

Problem Statement IBM HTTP Server 9.0 on z/OS cannot authenticate users who have IBM Multi-Factor Authentication (IBM MFA) enabled in their RACF/ACF2 security profile when using HTTP Basic Authentication via mod_authnz_saf. Technical Detail The mo...
2 months ago in z/OS / HTTP Server Not under consideration

REST API for z/OS Change tracker that works

Currently, z/OS change tracker is usale from ISPF by batch and z/OSMF. Usually, we could use the batch version for using it in APIs by using ZOAU. Unfortunately, there is no SYNC API for the Change Tracker (see ZOS-I-4837). The best solution would...
2 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker Future consideration

allow one parameter in CEEENTRY that would control DSA stack storage type with 31/64 bit storage

While calling CEEENTRY under HLASM , it is difficult to control DSA storage type by the user. Goal is to allow user to control DSA stg either 24/31/64 bit.
2 months ago in z/OS / LE Under review

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