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    Support automated install/update of OSA-ICC Certificates

    Large environments can have dozens of ICC consoles to support out of band access to TN3270/Master Consoles. If the organization has standards/restrictions around the sharing/reuse of certificates, there's a large operational burden in renewing the...
    22 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Submitted

    IODF default value of FEATURE and PARAMETER in the manual and the F1 help panel

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

    SDSF - Output Class 'OUTCLASS' Panel

    There are for most of the definitions like Jobclass (JC), SPOOL definition (MAS,SO,SP), System info (PROC,INIT) but no quick overview for the Output Class "OUTCLASS" definition. This request is to provide another JES related panel for OUTCLASS to ...
    5 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

    Support crypto accelerators in go/crypto / HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise)

    Currently HashiCorp Vault is compiled using a statically linked go/crypto library which doesn't use openssl or openCryptoki. This results in no support for libica on IBM Z / LinuxOne machines and thus lower performance than expected. It would be n...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Submitted

    Enable FEATURE SHARED=YES in the HCD PROFILE

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

    IODF report in CSV format

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Not under consideration

    DASD SHARED default YES in HCD dialog

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 2 Needs more information

    Command to display how much full is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in given moment)

    Dear IBM Team, there is now way how to find out how much occupied is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in DSLIST 3.4 it always shows 100 %, so this is not relevant). There is just warning message IFB080E once it is 90 % full and then message IFB081I once it is...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 0 Future consideration

    zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

    Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Under review

    Convert RACF to UTF-8

    It would be beneficial if RACF supported full UTF-8 natively, it would allow greater support for specialized characters in names and descriptions, it would also make communication with other systems much easier.
    2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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