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Process encryption using an AES 256 key with parameter FF1 on CPACF

Hello, Encryption using FF1 parameter (API ICSF CSNBFFXE / CSNBFFXD) is today processed on crypto cards On crypto cards, as the CP cache is not shared with the crypto card, the elaps time increased a lot (too much) if we want to encrypt data When ...
5 months ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

System Logger offload monitoring should create a diagnostic dump upon detection of an offload delay.

System Logger offload monitoring provides notification of delays in log stream offload processing with the goal of allowing an installation to take action to prevent log streams filling to capacity, which would result in the failure of IXGWRITE re...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

ISPF SELECT PGM should be enhanced to support calling a 64 bit program

ISPF currently has no code to support calling a program in 64 bit mode. When a SELECT PGM is done the program is invoked using the LINK macro and Reg 1 is set to the parm if any is specified. AMODE64 requires using LINKX and setting the AMODE64PK=...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

JCL LIKE for PDSE Version and MAXGENS

In JCL, the DD LIKE parameter is used to specify the allocation attributes of a new data set by copying the attributes of an existing cataloged data set. One attribute it copies is the DSNTYPE parameter, which includes whether the model data set i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 6 Future consideration

Extracting SMF in a single job step with a single pass of data

If I want to dump multiple different timeframes of data into an smf dataset I have to do it in multiple steps and mod'ing onto the output dataset For example if I want Type14 records from 2200 on 1st Jan to 06:00 on 3rd Jan I would have to do this...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Command output for LI DD,KVTS

We want to work with CUIR. In the output for the Command LI DD,KVTS, should be the jobname and the system name on wich the job is running displayed. We have several TS7700T shared with 21 lpars. It's difficult to find the currently mounted job.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

ISPF 3.17 Browse - fix codepage detection

When using ISPF 3.17 and selecting a file to Edit/View the codepage is correctly detected and the data is usable. When selecting the same file using Browse the codepage is not correctly detected and the data if unintelligible. This should be fixed.
10 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

switch from IEFUSI to SMFLIM

Hi IBM, today we use IEFUSI to adjust Region Limit and Region Size for z/OS Address Spaces.With this Exit, we also make sure that we have a sufficiently large difference between Region Limit (LDALIMIT/LDAELIM) and Region Size (LDAVVRG/LDAEVVRG). z...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Setting shorter timeouts (e.g. 10th of seconds) in z/OS® client web enablement toolkit

The z/OS® client web enablement toolkit provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable traditional, native z/OS programs to participate in modern web services applications. In z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit you can use t...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Enable VSAM browse/view from ISPF (without additional product such as File Manager)

Browse (and perhaps view) a VSAM dataset directly from ISPF without having to install an additional product such as File Manager
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration