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Coordinated change master keys and key storage from TKE workstation

[Request] Create consistent Key Set function from TKE workstation to Domain Group on Linux only environment. [Issue]-Inconsistent master key “SET” operation from TKE workstation on z/Linux only environment-Cannot use “Set, immediate”, because this...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Future consideration

FTP - Submit a JOB from a UTF-8 encoded file

With the openness to the heterogeneous world, Clients most often work with UTF-8 encoding, while the "mvs" part of z/OS works in EBCDIC. We would like to be able to submit JOBs via FTP which on the Client are encoded in UTF-8, and that on the z/OS...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit Alert Editing File With More Than 999999 Records

When editing a file greater than 999999 lines, a warning should appear to alert the user. This might take the form of a ==MSG> line, or a ISPF short and/or long message.
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Provide syslogd isolation by jobnames for AT-TLS Applications

Provide ability for syslogd isolation for AT-TLS defined Applications to maintain their Jobnames for use in syslogd logs. Currently, all AT-TLS Applications fall under JOBNAME=TCPIP.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Search order for REXX Socket Translation Tables

The Search Order for ACSII/EBCDIC Translation Tables is described in "IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference". The translation tables for REXX Socket Calls are searched in the following order:1. user_prefix.subtaskid.TCPX...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

HMC asks for user and pasword verification due to weight or capping LPAR change

Whenever necessary to change Mainframe LPAR weight or capping attributes, let HMC asks for password confirmation as double check and as a way to keep track of changes
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Planned for future release

es_ES.ISO8859-15 requested

We need locale es_ES.ISO8859-15.Many different locales are shipped with z/OS as described on ' z/OS® XL C/C++ Programming Guide', 'Compiled locales' section:http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.cbcpx01/loccomp.h...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

A new paramenter to automatically throttle the amount of DVE requests to be processed based upon a user's region spec.

Please make a change to introduce a new parameter for DEVMAN to automatically throttle the amount of requests to be processed based upon a user's region specification.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Output field in a Naviquest sample job

I am trying to run some naviquest reports from the SYS1.SACBCNTL(ACBJBAIX) sample. This is a Storage Group report that is using ISMF. I would like to get the Description field but it doesnt seem that this is available. The Description is listed in...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

SPC's _24malc() and _4kmalc() for Metal C

Given SPC is stabilized, would be nice if the 2 SPC RTL functions that are not tied to SPC environment management were available in the Metal C RTL, namely _24malc() and _4kmalc(), rather than having to use __asm() to embed STORAGE macro calls. I ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Metal C Run-time Library 0 Future consideration

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