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Connect keyring to another keyring as an extension to the first

Allow a Key Ring to be connected to another key ring as an extension to the first -- all the certificates in the second key ring would act as if they were individually connected to the first key ring. a Keyring contains pointers to digital certifi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow "NOTCON" status for all SYSTEMS for Object Storage Groups

NOTCON status is not allowed for all SYSTEMS for a Object Storage Group. This is undesirable when you have a SMS CDS where these storage groups are assigned (but not used) and there is a need for DFSMSoam.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 1 Future consideration

SMTP MAXMSGSENT needs retry interval setting

When on user of a tcpip address sends more then 30 emails to another mail server that server turns all emails off to the sending tcpip address.The SMTP MAXMSGSENT can limit how many connections can be sent to a single tcpip connection. If there wa...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

CMT#AB6351

When Correctable Error(CE) occurs in the CPU L3 cache in LinuxONE, db2sysc/gskit issues KMC instruction,After recovering Correctable Error (CE), HW recovery failed because KMC instruction could not rerun that original data was already encripted.IP...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

Please add zERT information in NETSTAT Displays like AT-TLS

Please add zERT Information for a selected TCP Session and report TLS Version, Ciphersuite and Session Reuse in a z/OS Stack Netstat Report Display like is it available for AT-TLS
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

TSO TESTAUTH should load authorized reentrant programs into key 0 storage

Problem: The TSO TESTAUTH command does not provide for locating non-reentrant code in authorized reentrant programs. It loads authorized reentrant code into subpool 251 which is not key 0 thus preventing abends during testing. The programmer could...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

Request new system call from LE on z/OS platform

We have a client who's using C++ collate transform() functions; and has reported an issue with its functionality. After our investigation, our development team has determined that in order to get the desired functionality, we rely on some new func...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

M/T 2964 (z13) WCU Pump Switch

This is a customer request (Walmart) to be able to manually switch the WCU pumps. Currently the WCU pumps switch ever 47 days. Customer had a couple of situations where the customer supply loop valves were not open on the redundant supply loop and...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

ATTLS policy applied after SOCKS occur for FTP policy

I was attempting to get a proxy'ed connection for FTP to use ATTLS outbound. I could not get the policy to match on IP and Port due to the fact it was using Socks. This means all of the connections that I have going through my Proxy server has to ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Change Context Services cell pool to use a cell pool type that can be contracted

Due to extraordinary MQ transaction activity, a dump shows over 37k inflight URs and common storage fragmented by numerous Context Services CIE and CNTX control blocks. These CIE and CNTX blocks are managed by CPOOL and do not get contracted. When...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 1 Future consideration