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Automatic update of MRDB when customer initiates CIU transaction.

Currently when a customer makes a permanent upgrade via CIU, the MRDB must be updated manually by the HW rep or Business Partner, leading to possible future ordering issues if the manual update is not completed.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

When using IFASMFDL for extracting SMF-data, job might end with RC=08-0804 if no data is in the log stream

See also case TS017633432. In brief: we are writing SMF data to logstreams (As recommended by IBM). We are having different LogStreams in order to pre-select the SMF-records. On Log-Stream is for DB2-SMF records in which we collect records 100:102...
22 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Submitted

CFRM policy editor: support for comments

CFRM policy editor does not support comments. When importing the CFRM policy from a dataset, current available comments in the JCL of the CFRM policy are lost.It would mean that we can't document anything if using the zOSMF CFRM policy editor. ZOS...
28 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Enhance ISPF Services to Dynamically Support 8 Character Userids

Today the user code is responsible to determine if the userid is 8 characters and thus require, in the case of LMMSTATS the use of USER8, instead of the USER keyword. The service should be able to determine this dynamically so the developer using ...
4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Asymmetric key encrypted data to Symmetric key encrypted data encryption(and reverse) - new API function

We have a use case today to decrypt an RSA public key encrypted payload and re-encrypt it with a symmetric key without exposing the payload in the clear out side of ICSF
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Submitted

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