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DPM support of Internal Shared Memory / SMC-D

DPM should allow for configuration of Internal Shared Memory (ISM) for SMC-D
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 1 Planned for future release

Honor the MC attributes for TCT using 'HMIG' command

Currently if you use 'HMIGRATE' command, all attributes of the 'Management Class' concerning 'Transparent Cloud Tiering' are not honored.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Planned for future release

HMC support for Federation protocols(SAML 2.0 or OIDC)

Currently HMC Does not support SAML 2.0 or OIDC protocols for authentication. Our organization is moving to Federation as an Enterprise access solution and will impact how we administer HMC access.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

Allow IDCAMS to INITIALIZE a VSAM dataset during (or after) DEFINE

CICS is unable to open newly defined empty VSAM datasets as it requires at least one CI to be formatted. To overcome this requires use of an OEM or open source program (VSAMINIT is the common one) to write and then delete a record in the VSAM data...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Planned for future release

Avoid hang of System Logger's End-of-Memory Resource Manager IXGR1EOT

A hang of System Logger's End-of-Memory (EOM) Resource Manager IXGR1EOT prevented effective cleanup for 4 minutes thus also locking out other relevant EOM Resource Managers during this period.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

Support additional special variables like ISFTLINE in secondary panels like JDS when using REXX as %-action character

Some special variables like ISFTLINE are not supported on (some?) secondary panels (like JDS) when using REXX as %-action-character. Eg. ISFTLINE could be used to get JOBNAME or JOBID in secondary panel like JDS. Alternatively, having the JOBNAME,...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Planned for future release

VSAM GSR support for encryption KEYLABEL

We have a VSAM application that uses GSR. If we attempt to establish an encryption KEYLABEL on the cluster the OPEN the fails with RC=166 along with IEC161I 121-163. We have a business and client need to be able to encrypt the DB using Pervasive E...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Planned for future release

Please provide C++17 support for the Cryptographic Coprocessor Custom Software Developer's Toolkit (CEX7S/4769)

C++ provides valuable features to the UDX developper in order to extend the standard IBM CCA functionality:- Guaranteed intialization of variables and objects during creation (constructor)- Guaranteed clean-up of variables while destroying the obj...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Planned for future release

JPMC RFE is needed to ask for future support to be able to delay, NOT CANCEL the scheduled code upgrade via the HMA. Today, there is no deferral option only a cancel option when approaching scheduled start time.

As there are many occasions where we need to delay the code activate for a period of time within scheduled window and would be a benefit not have to fully cancel and reschedule. Also, we are reluctant to do RCL in production is the inability to do...
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Missing syslog messages for important configuration changes on the HMC

There are currently no logs for when the syslog forwarding configuration is changed, nor when changes are made to the SSL/TLS certificates used by the HMC for connections to other servers, such as remote syslog server. We need this feature to effe...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

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