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RMF SR to support blanks in passphrase

RMF SpreadSheet Reporter should support blanks in passphrases. Currenlty, when we define a SYSTEM within RMF SR, we try to connect to the z/OS system and we use a RACF Passphrase that contains blanks, the connection from RMF SR to z/OS fails with ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Not under consideration

Option to automatically create unique workflowname through RESTful API

Workflows created within the z/OSMF Workflow tab have a unique name if the value "Default Name:" is left blank. As a result, all the workflows created from the same .xml will have “- Workflow_%", where % is a increasing number with each workflow c...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

End user must be able to handle custom secureboot keys on s390x

On all securebootable platforms end user can- wipe secureboot keys- provision own secureboot keys- reset to stock secureboot keys And boot bootloader / kernel is only signed by keys that end user controls. This has many properties of securing syst...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Future consideration

dss full DUMP CPVOLUME for OS MiniDisks like z/VSE

ADRDSSU dump is not possible for DASDs with multiple OS MiniDisks. Our customers have separated some DASDs into many smaller z/VM MiniDisks for use by his z/VSE. But same problem could occur for other products under z/VM, that create OS-Disks. Pro...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Converting DFSMS utilities (IEBGENER) to 31bit

For a Special isv application (Serena merant dimensions) we've had to activate XPLINK(ON) for some EPLI main routines. Same application uses/calls IEBGENER too and this combination isn't working now:CEE3194E An attempt was made to initialize an AM...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Reduce clutter in IPCS formatting of GTFTRACE output in batch

We use IPCS to format GTF traces from CICS but the IPCS GTFTRACE output includes extra lines that we don't want to see. To solve this, we first send the IPCS formatted GTF trace to a temporary dataset, then use a REXX to clean off the unwanted lin...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 3 Not under consideration

EE over IPv6 needs to use the larger MTU of Jumbo OSAs or HiperSockets

When EE goes over IPv4 then it uses the available MTU provided by the OSAs or HiperSockets. Did you know that EE over IPv6 does not? It constrains itself to an MTU of 1100 bytes, even though OSPF is telling us the the available MTU is 8192 for Jum...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Make it easier to enabe FTP clients for AT-TLS, in environments that have a variety of FTP servers

For environments where z/OS FTP client users have to connect to a variety of different FTP servers - especially those that are managed by organizations outside of my enterprise - the need to change AT-TLS policy in order to protect the FTP connect...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

RACF LISTUSER command to show GROUP connects in alphabetical order

Imagine you are requesting access to a z/OS lpar, and you have a long list of GROUP connects to request. As your access requests are processed, you can go back to the system and issue the RACF LISTUSER command to confirm the GROUP connects are cor...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

DFSMShsm Allow different numbers of backup versions and different retention criteria for Unix files within the same ZFS

The ability to use different numbers of backup versions and different retention criteria for Unix files within the same file system is required in DFSMShsm. As it is now in DFSMShsm it's not granular enough, since we require some files and/or dire...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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