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z14 SNMP MIB enhancement add mainframe SN, FRU location and FRU PN included,

For some reason, the mainland mainframe clients DO NOT enable the option of call home, the response time of 7*24 standby servicedepends on the completeness of SNMP message to some extent, which is critical to keep the customer satisfaction and ser...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Allow disposition to be specified on fopen

DISP=SHR cannot be set when fopening a file in write mode. In read mode it defaults to DISP=SHR. If the file is a PDS(E) member, this locks out the whole PDS(E) so that no-one can browse the other members. If you use a DD Card, then you can specif...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Add Certificate trust verification in CSNDDSV service

Currently the option to verify the trust of a certificate is possible only by adding the CA and Intermediate CA certificates using TKE into ICSF adaptor. This is new and overhead for the limited ICSF admin team. Add option to verify the signature ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 7 Future consideration

Add support for MTU size in OSPF DD packets as per RFC 2328

Add the MTU size to OSPF Database Description packets in accordance with RFC 2328
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zFS ACCESS Security

We ask z/OS Security Server to be enhanced to permit zFS to be easily protected, like HFS current protection running for the early life of HFS on z/OS.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Functionality already exists

SORT/ICETOOL statements for variable length records

Allow the coding of SORT / ICETOOL statements without having to add +4 to every position to account for the variable length RDW. This would require a new SORT option (perhaps VLRDW) to allow for both old and new method. Benefit: Easier to both cod...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under consideration

zOS Ported Tools SSH FACILITY BPX.SMF Processing Improvements

RFE for Improvements to FACILITY BPX.SMFReference: OA48775.pdf The DoD STIG Team evaluated changes to FACILITY BPX.SMF that provide granular profile capabilities in the format BPX.SMF.<type>.<subtype>. We also participated in a telecon...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 0 Future consideration

Enhance setfacl with the -R option

The setfacl command in z/OS seems to be missing the -R (recursive) option that is available on Linux. I don't know about Aix or Solaris or HPUX. But it seems reasonable that the recursive option should be available on the setfacl command. http://l...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Request TR31- SECMSG Support

It is required to extend the ability to export SECMSG type keys in TR-31 format using the CSNBT31X command
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Not under consideration

ICHPWX01 and IRRPWREX sample files for RACF on zVM

We need sample ICHPWX01 and IRRPWREX sample files so that we can code the REXX exec to comply with our specific password security requirements.
almost 6 years ago in z/VM 4 Planned for future release

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