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make z/OS FTP does support MLSD

z/OS FTP does not support MLSD, therefore, in Filzilla and other FTP clients, files with more than 99 exdents are not displayed in the file list, with MLSD this would be possible
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Have the possibility to pass directly from password to passphrase authentication when you need to change your password.

For upgrade the security, the company decides to switch from password authentication to passphrase authentication . For the moment the RACF administrator removes the password and sets up the passphrase for the UID. But the administrateur have ta s...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Usage of the "Common Plattform Enumeration" (CPE) for IBM Products in the "IBM Z an LinuxOne Security Portal" within Resource link

Given that vulnerability and patch management is not only a concern of the z ecosystem in an organization, the software to manage vulnerability data should be able to handle sources and vulnerabilities for multiple platforms. Therefore a standardi...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / General 5 Not under consideration

Support Compression for zCX-VSAM Files

We want to compress the data from zCX at runtime to minimize the I/Os and the used space on DASD. For Pervasive Encryption it is recommended to compress data before encryption. For zFS VSAM-LDS Files it is possible to compress by using zfsadm comm...
9 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration
155 VOTE

Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

SMF Python API

I know there's a Python API for SMF but it doesn't run on z/OS. I need a Python package for extracting SMF records directly on z/OS, as that's where my application runs. It should be free and open source, just like RACFu. The reason it's important...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 4 Not under consideration
103 VOTE

RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration
255 VOTE

TSO/E: Implement Pipes Facility

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1202104946User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE011455Title: TSO/E: Implement Pipes FacilitySubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Will...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / TSO 20 Not under consideration

JES2 Resource Group support regarding Job Output commands

Currently, it's documented that $POJQ,/RESGROUP=xxx works to purge all job output that is associated with jobs in a JES2 Resource Group. Using this command results in: $HASP003 RC=(82),PO JQ RESGROUP - INVALID FILTER KEYWORD According to the PMR t...
3 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration