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Eliminate RACINIT 108 error on JWT expiration

When performing a multi-step, e.g RADIUS Challenge/Response MFA Authentication with the IDTDATA SAF Class activated, if the user waits for more than the JWT lefetime between steps, the user sees a quick flash of the message:IKJ56416I RACF RACINIT ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Allow Virtual Concurrent Copy (VCC) to dynamically allocate Working-Space Data Set(s)

Virtual Concurrent Copy currently requires each installation to pre-define/allocate the Working-Space Data Set necessary to contain the PIT track images. There is no easy way for the installation to know what the appropriate size for these data se...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Future consideration

Improve HSM messaging around ML1 data set migration failures

During ML1 migration, HSM selects a volume by examining the space available but it does not consider the fragmentation index for the volumes. In cases where there are many volumes (especially EAV's) with a lot of space available in the overall poo...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST Services - Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters

Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters, as a way to indicate that we have files that already contain the NEWLINE characters so that no additional NEWLINE characters get added.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Offline BER test on FICON channels

On IBM DS8K products we are able to perform an offline Bit ERror (BER) test to check a FICON link's quality while the path is offline but the cables are connected. My understanding is that this is accomplished by using idle characters being sent o...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Future consideration

Unique directory name only possible

Working for Kyndryl Resiliency Services, we start clients under z/VM. The fact is that our clients name their partitions with a too generic name, like PROD, SYST, DEV... and they need to preserve their names to run their DR scenarios. It appears t...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Incident Log should support OEM FTP

Customer is running OEM FTP software and want to use this with'Z/OSMF Incident Log',editing the JCL before is not an option for the customer.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Provide AT-TLS capability to connect with different SNIs to same RemoteAddr

Cloud service providers can provide multiple instances of the same service behind an ingres node that can be addressed by specifying their individual virtual host names for each instance in the SNI headers (server name indicator). Multiple virtual...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Allow ML1 DASD volume DEFRAG when HSM is active

Based on a Case that I had opened regarding the use of DFDSS DEFRAG and ML1 DASD volumes, IBM Support mentioned that "...if you want to do defrag the ML1 volumes, you should backup the ML1 volumes first and then shutdown HSM. You should not runnin...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Add a message to indicate an error when z/OSMF cannot verify the certificate you provided

An error message indicating z/OSMF couldn't use the certificate provided (visible to the end-user) would decrease the amount of ICH408I messages in our system log. Something like "Certificate not recognized by z/OSMF. Use standard login method ins...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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