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Request for keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP

We would like a keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP that will give LDAP admins the ability to control how long an idle connection is kept open without being automatically closed by the server.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

SSH Closing Down needs to clear all the forked client sessions

Hi Team I was very much surprised to know that there is no such command to clear all the forked client sessions when SSHD is being stopped for an IPL / Recycles and we need to wait for all these sessions to close down or get closed due to being id...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

Incorporate the REXX Compiler into z/OS

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 08/23/2022 Submitter Name: Lionel B Dyck (Senior Software Engineer) Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: REXX is being shipped with more products on z/OS including system automation and sys...
about 2 years ago in z/OS 0 Not under consideration

improved monitoring: more messages and quicker

current monitoring does not show all errors, and sometimes shows errors that have been corrected. Monitoring should also be quicker - status of compute nodes should have enough priority to show problems in near-real-time.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Support for storage upgrade /storage HA

1) to support Citi’s plan to upgrade storage systems; 2) to support Citi’s plan to implment storage HA solution (which is in discussion)
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Needs more information

RSCS support for IPv6

RSCS support for IPv6 would allow US Government agencies to continue to use z/VM with RSCS and would bring RSCS into compliance with Office of Management and Budget mandates for products to support IPv6. This would benefit all z/VM customers as it...
about 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

SKRBKDC: Support for switching off Replay Detection

We've an application on OSCP. Our security policy says that from docker against z/OS Kerberos have to bee used for authentication. Actually, per server are multiple instances of docker running / per docker multiple threads. Each thread goes agains...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 2 Future consideration

Enhance zERT to Detect Non AT-TLS connections.

The product only identifies traffic if it uses ATTLS for encryption. Not all products or app servers connecting to us use ATTLS. For example, MFT is AES256 and yet they show up as unsecured. Same with CICS gateway and others.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RMFIII WFEX in batch mode with longer time ranges from 7 to 30 days or more

WFEX (Work Flow Exception) is a performance tool that directly facilitates determination of causes/reasons for delays in workloads. However, the interactive facility on TSO has limitations, it only captures events interactively on short time range...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 12 Functionality already exists

LE Callable Service for RegEx

RegEx is a basic service to validate that a string is a regular expression. It's been implemented in Java, C, C#, perl, and many others. It's used in ISPF. It even has a Wikipedia entry. It's not available in COBOL. Take the best implementation, e...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

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