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All color adjustment of status fields.

It can be extremely difficult to identify systems "not active" and "not operating" because they use the same icon (X) and color in the status column. In the "Classical view" it was easy to quickly identify different states of objects based on thei...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Retrieve encryption status in ISPF at cluster level

While ISPF retrieves the information needed to display the encryption status for the DATA and INDEX, ISPF does not retrieve the information needed for the CLUSTER. Encryption status should be made available in ISPF for DATA, INDEX and CLUSTER.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

ICSF: Allow us to restrict ARCHIVED keys for decryption only

We want to deploy Pervasive Encryption for Datasets and do not want ARCHIVEd keys to be able to be used for encryption, just decryption.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Delivered

HMC Email From Domain Setting

HMC EMAIL NOTIFICATION NEEDS TO INDICATE 'FROM' DOMAIN OF '@DOMAIN.COM' INSTEAD OF '@NAME.DOMAIN.COM' FOR SECURITY EMAIL FILTER PURPOSES.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

Allow symbolic substitution in the JES2 JOBDEF NFY_SUBJECT parameter

In the new JES2 2.3 NFY_SUBJECT parameter in JES2 parms, the 'string' cannot contain symbols such as &SYSJOBNM. Please provide that function ASAP so our JOB notification e-mails can have meaningful Subject lines, such as 'job name ended with n...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered

ISPF 3.2 support for DSKEYLBL

ISPF 3.2 support for the DSKEYLBL keyword; which is used for pervasive dataset encryption. The current ISPF 3.2 panel does not support it, so the end user needs to code JCL to allocate a dataset for pervasive encryption; which slows down implement...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

Ability to create user access controls within the zCX CLI

We use ZCX , when we define any new user to zCX by default new users are attached to docker group. So any user can issue all docker commands ,he can pull the images, stop/start own container and as well other containes.So we would request to have ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 3 Delivered

Lock tape creation until DFSMSRMM is running

When the DFSMSRMM initialization routine is defined in the parmlib IEFSSNxx member, it should lock tape creation even if the product is not enabled by the parmlib IFAPRDxx member. It would only be locked until DFRMM is recording.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Delivered

Don't truncate column EXCP-CNT in DA Panel, instead show **

Please change the behavior in the DA (Display Active) Panel to show ** instead of truncating the numbers in the case the column-width is not big enough.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

AMAPDUPL with DHE/ECDHE cipher suites

When using AMAPDUPL with https on www.secure.ecurep.ibm.com TLS 1.2 is required, which is nice. From TS003255137 I know that the server supports the following cipher suites:•C030 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384•C02F TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_12...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 3 Delivered

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