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List available SSL/TLS Ciphers with info about use of Crypto Cards

In CICS communication (SSL/TLS) with ATM a Cipher is selected/negotiated. Please make a list of all ciphers with informations about which can run in the CryptoCard e.g. CEX6C (HW) to offload the usage of CPU, and which can only run using the norma...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Increase the CRL field length in TR34 ICSF services

The CRL field length in TR34 ICSF services CSNDT34B and CSNDT34D are defined with only 3500 bytes. If the CA sends a CRL more than 3500 bytes then the services will fail resulting in ATMs going out of service.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Future consideration

enhance ICSF panel R to list out the ACPs the same way as the TKE workstation.

Hi there, Currently ICSF panel R only alphabetically lists out only the enabled ACPs in just one big list. ICSF manual alphabetically lists out all available ACPs but also in one big list. my RFE is to request for ICSF panel R enhanced to list out...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

GDPS z/VM online/offline volumes hindering an ENABLED HYPERSWAP status

We have a GDPS environment with z/OS and z/VM and we are testing such that we have both participating in HYPERSWAP. The z/VM has a list of volumes for z/VM's use and those volumes are known to both z/OS and z/VM but z/OS volumes are only ever brou...
over 4 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Parm to remove report lines from IXCMIAPU

Please add a PARM to IXCMIAPU so that it does not issue line breaks, page counts and report headers ADMINISTRATIVE DATA UTILITY: REPORT DATA TYPE = CFRM 06/12/2019 17:30:16 PAGE 4 ___________________________________________________________________...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Allow HSM to configure the type of container that will create in the cloud for TCT.

At present HSM creates the containers in the Cloud as 'Standard' and we would like to have the option to create them as "Smart Tier".
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Encryption facility for z/OS Key management requirement

We are running z/OS 2.3 and we have Encryption Facility for z/OS (FMID HCF7740). We have a limited number of applications using the product at this time, but we would like to introduce it to more applications. There are a couple of factors limitin...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Future consideration

ONLY (O) Edit Primary Command

An ONLY function (exclude all lines except those meeting the search criteria) is a very common editing function. It is frequently one of the first edit macros developed when learning edit macros. Unfortunately, due to limitations with numbering mo...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Allow batch TSO to return the MAXRC instead of the last rc seen

I have a sequence of commands, such as RACDCERT GENCERT... RACDCERT LIST cert. If the GENCERT fails, the list cert works, and I get RC = 0 from the jobstep. I have to have multiple jobsteps one for he RACDCERT GENCERT and another with RACDCERT LIS...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Optimized ADRDSSU CPU usage for uncompressed Striped Datasets backup

WHEN CALLING ADRDSSU TO DUMP A non-compressed SEQUENTIAL DATASET TO TAPE THE AMOUNT OF CPU FOR PROCESSING A 16 STRIPE DATASET WITH OPT(4) IS APPROXIMATELY 500-700% OF THE CPU USED TO DUMP THE SAME DATA FROM A NON-STRIPED OR SINGLE STRIPED DATASET ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

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