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Confirmation of Crypto When Resetting UDX Back to Factory Default

As a UDX user, we have been testing going back to the factory default (ie no UDX). Given this action resets the Master Keys it would be useful to have the Crypto number being reset in the confirmation screen. So you can go through: Select a Proces...
7 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

Remove CSR requirement to install certificates on Z HMC

No other IBM HMC's (DISK or TAPE) require the generation of a CSR to then allow the install of a CA signed Certificate. Clients have their own tools for generating CA signed certs so a CSR should not be required but should only be optional.
8 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

zOSMF - Full High Availability (not only for REST)

Current implementation of zOSMF does not allow for a full High-Availability setup, which contradicts the platforms design with highest availability, redundancy and data sharing.We suffer from zOSMF downtime required for maintenance of the hosting ...
8 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Add interface to JES2/3 to be able to submit jobs via SFTP script similarly as FTP

First, the facility is on the regular FTP to JES2 job submission. This is not available on an SFTP process, this interface should be similar to the FTP. How it should work: When a client sends data in this case to the zOS mainframe, after the file...
22 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Drop the requirements for VSAM RLS/Sysplex Structure

To make possible to use the new EzNoSQL database without a sysplex.
12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Submitted

Externalising the ZFS ucat Automount allocation error’s in SYSLOG.

A change is needed for the 'UCAT' option of the 'ALLOCUSER' parm in automount. A error message should be externalized to SYSLOG when the creation of the end users zfs fails because there is no ALIAS in the master catalog. Currently the only way to...
14 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Include additional material in indexed PDFs

The HLASM, HLASM Toolkit and z/Architecture manuals are high usain one place.ge. It would be convenient if the could be download and search
30 days ago in z/OS / Documentation 0 Submitted

Capability in zOSMF workflow for 'superuser' to mark complete steps owned by other users

We have custom automated zOSMF workflows that are created and started by system users. Sometimes the steps in these workflows are not successful and are resolved outside the workflow, but we don't have a way for a human to 'mark complete' these st...
16 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Keep message IKJ56474I USERID OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR NOT AUTHORIZED to be held on the screen

When logging into TSO through TN3270, if the user ID or password is entered incorrectly, message 'IKJ56474I USERID OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR NOT AUTHORIZED' briefly appears on the screen before disappearing after a few seconds. Our company audit...
21 days ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Submitted

Selectable items under Customizable Data Replication for User Profile Data

We would like to use Customizable Data Replication across all HMAs in two data centers to replicate passwords for local IDs (i.e. ACSADMIN, SERVICE) but each data center has unique User Patterns. Can the User Profile Data type have sub-categories ...
21 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

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