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Try other connection paths when one fails

Currently when a connection path fails, if it is best path it will be attempted to be used the next time a session is attempted to the same end point. That is unless you set UNRCHTIM. UNRCHTIM is the amount of time it is deemed unreachable. There ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

PING Enhancement

On command line when issuing a PING command, I would like to add an additional feature to allow time interval between multiple PING counts. This feature is already available in UNIX OSs. For example: Ping Example 1. Increase or Decrease the Time I...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Cleint Certificates should not be required when specifying SECURE LOGIN as REQUIRED and SECURE PASSWORD as OPTIONAL.

Many FTP clients from various government and non government organizations connect to us. Some use Z: OS clients and some use non Z:OS clients. The administrators of these clients have various expertise. We wish to migrate as many of the clients to...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Cipher preference order when using JCECCARACFKS

When using JCECCARACFKS for pgp certificate creation, EF is not honoring on export option -eA racf algorithms for cipher preference order. Neither does it help when overriding those options for encryption and hashing algorithms with -cipher-name o...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Not under consideration

Operlog should write more than a single MDB to a logblock to allow connecting of multiple MDBS for long multi-line messages

OPERLOG currently only writes a single Message Data Block (MDB) to a logblock for the OPERLOG logstream. When attempting to display OPERLOG in hardcopy format, know applications like IEAMDBLG, SDSFLOG and ISFLOG read single logblocks containing si...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Any OSPROTECT processing should be offloaded on zIIP processor

When enabling the OSPROTECT=1 attirbute, any additional workload should not be executed on CP but on a zIIP processor
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Uncontrolled environment after accessing OMVS

After accessing OMVS under TSO we are getting an uncontrolled environment and is necessary to logoff/logon in order tho have again a controlled environment. We received the following message if we try to access any TSO application that requires a ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

RRSF: Password/passphrase re-synchronization

With the implementation of RRSF, it is possible to synchronize a user's password/passphrase between different RACF databases. Due to various technical reasons, sometimes a user's password/passphrase may get out of sync in such a RRSF environmen...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

SYSZIGW0 should prevent deletion

My customer encountered the message IGW039I while allocating a new dataset although the dataset could have been deleted normally. The deletion should be prevented by qname SYSZIGW0. Please refer to case TS009656465 for more details.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Not under consideration

Add additional AVGREC sizes to Space definitions in JCL and IDCAMS

With the large size volumes and larger amounts of data going to datasets, it would be helpful if the AVGREC and DEFINE statements allow more options. Currently AVGREC has B(ytes) and K(ilobyte) and M(egabytes). and DEF VSAM has K(ilobyte) and M(eg...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration