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ICSF should allocate its DD cards after JES is up when started SUB=MSTR

Please enhance ICSF so that when we start it up SUB=MSTR it will eventually allocate it's DD card post JES starting up. The RACF address space exhibits this behavior today so it stands to reason it should be possible with ICSF.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Please add support for generating a Certificate Signing Request with email address (/E=email@xyz.com)

Today you can't make a RACDCERT GENCERT with an email address in the SUBJECTSDN, as you can using other certificate tools. RACF supports the email address, if it comes in a Certificate from an external source like EKMF, Windows etc.. We experience...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

TASID - Make Open Source

Suggest IBM make TASID 'Open Source' code and place it on the CBT tape. As noted in the below IBM website, "This tool is available on an 'AS IS' basis" and "In z/OS 2.2, some functions do NOT operate correctly. Selecting option 4, Initiator Status...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Import/Export capability for z/OSMF provisioning resources

Today - a lot of configuration needs to be done in order to publish a provisoning template in z/OSMF CP&M. This shared or dedicated resource pool require configuration of instance details, Job statement and the different resource pools for net...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Force HSM to reconnect active request to DS8k HMC

Using TCT HSM sends migrate/ recall requests to the DS8k HMC using IP. In case there is a problem with this HMC, it's possible to reconfigure SMS with an alternate HMC, but the active tasks are still connected to the 'failed' HMC and never end. Fa...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Remove limitation of 1500 entries in D RRS,UREX

From an RRS perspective the D RRS,UREX command does not show any URs when the count exceeds the limit of 1500 entries. D RRS,UREX ATR624I 11.00.42 RRS UR EXCEPTION SYSTEM URID WAIT FOR * Data truncated. DISPLAY RRS work area exceeded This is a des...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

An enhancement or upgrade to allow support for SSO products, including SAM.

My organization is moving from LDAP to SAML
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

z/OS FTP PROXY OPEN support over TLS

We've recently started to enforce TLS encryption for z/OS FTP connections. Some of our jobs use the FTP "proxy" command to request that a dataset be transferred from one z/OS FTP server to another z/OS FTP server. However, when this is done after ...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Slayte AHA Test Aug 26

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 08/26/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Future consideration

Consistent gdkdel response across cloud providers when object not found

AWS returns HTTP 204 (No content) for an object delete when the object is not found. The 204 HTTP response is a successful HTTP response (200 series) and due to that, gdkdel returns its successful return code 0. The gdkdel API documents the follow...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future consideration