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z/OS UNIX commands in /bin (cat, echo, touch, vi) as well as /bin/sh redirect should tag files.

I find myself tagging existing files that were untagged EBCDIC to work with new open-source ASCII based tools that rely on automatic conversion. A suggestion from Igor Todorovski ( itodorov@ca.ibm.com ): “Could be achieved by providing a new versi...
11 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Please develop an AMCE Client for z/OS

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On z/OS this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
7 months ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Not under consideration

Allow LDAP server admins to be able to customize SQL queries for LDAP operations.

Due to the wide range of SQL functionality and DB2 database implementations it's possible that certain SQL queries generated by the LDAP server are not optimized for some DB2 databases, a mechanism to allow LDAP admins to customize queries can gre...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Possibilitar que ocorram HMIGRATES em paralelo no DFSMSHsm

Peço criar a possiblidade do HMIGRATE de DATASETS executar em paralelo e se possivel com o mesmo controle de quantidade similar ao MAXMIGRATION TASKS do Primary Space Management
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

SMF/ICSF - Increase input validation for SMF record signing

Defining a TOKENNAME for either RECSIGN or ARECSIGN in the SMFPRMxx member is only validated to be exactly 32-characters long. However, one can activate the member with SET SMF=00 without throwing an error (even there is no associated private/publ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Basic/Large Format Dataset Encryption min LRECL and Blocksize option

Allow customers the option of bypassing encryption of basic/large format datasets if they do not meet the minimum LRECL requirements
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

zERT Analyzer - Enhance Query Builder Capabilities

While using the query builder in zERT it does not offer the ability to filter for either 'User ID' or 'Job Name' even those values are reported in the result set. It would be of great benefit if the query would allow to filter already on those two...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Include REVOKE in FACILITY password reset authorities

Enhance the authority associated with FACILITY resource IRR.PASSWORD.RESET and those prefixed IRR.PWRESET to allow users to REVOKE an ID within the existing scope of authority of these resources. These FACILITY resources allow users to RESUME and ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

HWTJCREN: Support unnamed root arrays in JSON parser

JSON allows for unnamed arrays as root, e.g. [] is perfectly correct. However, the Web Enablement toolkit currently rejects the request to create an unnamed array as root with HWTJ_JCREN_ENTRYVALUETYPE_INV. It should accept the request without a n...
4 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer must support SMF 119(11)

Currently zOSMF Network Analyzer does only support analyzing the zERT Discovery Records from SMF 119(12). However with the introduction of zERT Policy enforcement there must be the option to analyze the SMF 119(11) records too. It makes not sense ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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