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Display Public Certificate in AT-TLS Trace

Many times when working with AT-TLS there are mismatched Certificate issues. Especially when you are the client. However even when you have the Tracing for ATTLS turned to 255 you can not extract the public certificate from the flow. 99% of the ti...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Add Azure Support for CDA

We would like support in z/OS 2.4 to transfer data to and from MS Azure file and blob storage.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 3 Delivered

DAE should include functionality to purge/discard dumps by a customizable duration of time.

DAE currently requires manual intervention to ensure dumps are no longer suppressed. It is not uncommon that problem scenarios can involve many of the same dump being produced within a very short duration of time (such as 10 minutes or 1 hr). In t...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Delivered

DFSMShsm for files exclude criteria in data set

Our current Spectrum Protect environment uses a standard set of criteria to use for all of the backups. The DFSMShsm BACKDS, HBACKDS, and hbackup commands need the ability to specify a file or data set containing the necessary Exclude criteria dur...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Delivered

GDK KEYFILE and providers on DB2 base rather than on Unix file.

We plan to use CDA on CICS/IMS environment, so in transactional process and not in batch mode. Because i can have many transactions per minute who used CDA we will prefer to have the configuration unix files on a database (for exemple DB2) rather ...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Message GFSA728E should show causing userid

Message GFSA728E shows invalid mapping for a user through Kerberos authentication but not which userid it is.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Delivered

A 64 bit version of __demangle() is needed for Debug Tool to support Wyvern.

LE team already knows about this and what we need, but here are some details of what can go into the case:A 64 bit version of __demangle() is needed for Debug Tool to support Wyvern. This will possibly also affect FA and APA. __demangle is in the ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Delivered

Adjust BPXPRM00 FILESYSTYPE for CINET to get a "clean" first IPL after a serverpac

I recently completed a z/OSMF serverpac install. I attempted the first IPL in the procedures and everything came up except TCPIP. TCPIP failed with the following message. EZZ4203I Z/OS UNIX - TCP/IP CONNECTION ERROR FOR TCPIP-BPX4SOC,00000003,FFFF...
7 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

HMC <-> Support Element Communication must comply with PCI DSS / security requirements

To be compliant with the current PCI DSS requirements, certain cipher suites and signature algorithm must be used for the encrypted communication between HMC and Support Element. In contrast to the Web Frontend communication it is not possible to ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Document the LOGSTRX bit flag in ICHRFXP DSECT

This bit is referred to as "BIT12" in the ICHRFXP DSECT. This bit indicates the format of the data found at the LOGSTR pointer. This bit is needed to know what format the provided data is in for exits that process RACROUTE REQUEST=FASTAUTH calls.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Delivered

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