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Use placeholder text instead of real text for field descriptions

When you've gone to create a new workflow and the workflow editor has opened, , some fields has text in them already. The text then has to be manually deleted to get rid of it (see attached screenshot bad.png). The fields "Workflow ID", "Descripti...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm CDS/Journal Mirroring support

DFSMSrmm needs to automatically resolve CDS consistency point from journal when recovering from unplanned DR event. Consistency point of the hardware produced an event to RMM where the Journal had been updated but the CDS had not. At startup today...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

New feature of migratie DPM system by HMC/SE UI

DPM machine do not have a formal HMC/SE UI option to migrate system configuration between different machine generation. Current solution for this DPM migration is using API. For example, if customer want to migrate a DPM machine from z14 to z15, t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 2 Future consideration

Crypto Hardware Adjunct Processor Assignment

Crypto Adjunct Processors (APs) are assigned to Crypto PCHIDs at Power-on Reset time. In our experience they differ across multiple z15s despite being identical in hardware configuration. Can we manually assign APs to PCHIDs even if it requires a ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 Future consideration

Provide iNotify subsystem as on Linux and LoZ

This is a request to have an 'inotify' subsystem on z/OS, as currently exists on Linux and LoZ. There's no API on z/OS to monitor activity on directories, and poll() can only monitor files, sockets, etc. - but not directories.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

UPDATE RACF APPCLU SESSKEY ENCRYPTION

o We are unable to connect JES2 NODES when SIGNON=SECURE is specified on systems secured by RACF and those secured by CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret. Nodes where RACF is in use on both NODES are connecting successfully albeit with a non-FIPS 140-2 comp...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Have the functionality (PS to PSE) added to the DSS product.

We are moving data using ADRDSSU from legacy systems without any advanced dataset functionality to systems that support EAVS and hardware compression. The inability to replace PSE datasets with PS datasets is causing the restore jobs to finish CC ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Fix XCF message 'Job awaiting access to XCF data paths

The message 'Job awaiting access to XCF data paths' at RMF Job Delays panel, may not mean the job is really ran into delay awaiting access to XCF. It may be necessary to analize some others RMF panel details to find out if that message is related ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Permit reuse of Kerberos TGS for tickets with lifespan less than that of the TGT

Integrated Security Services NetworkAuthentication Service / Kerberos: Change TGS/Service Ticket issuing behavior. As described in the referring PMR, we have discovered that if the lifespan of a TGT is greater than the default lifespan of a TGS se...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 1 Future consideration

NMI support for OpenSSH SMF record type 119 94-98

We would like to collect SMF records for sftp 119 subtypes 94-98. We are currently using the NMI to collect SMF 119 records and report on them. Can we get these records via the NMI? Seems inconsistent to us to provide some records via the NMI and ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 3 Future consideration

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