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Signed SMF Records - Validation must be possible with any Token name (holding the pubic key)

We are using SMF dual signature (RECSIGN and ARECSIGN) which works as expected. However, we have a problem with the validation of the records.We have a specific naming pattern assigned to our Tokens (as referenced in SMFPRMxx) member. All our syst...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ISPF: Provide a way to dynamically define a line command table

With the demise of LMAC due to lack of support there needs to be a way to dynamically define an ISPF Edit/View line command table for the life of the Edit/View session. This would over-ride the global_line_command_table from the ispf config. Alter...
12 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

zERT Network Analyzer - Timezone adjustment with date/time for import

While loading data into zERT the start and end time reported in the 'Data Management History' tab is not the local or system time. It seems to be UTC and this cannot be changed via the Settings. As I would like to see those times in the local time...
6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

SMPE Management Plugin

It would be useful to add basic SMPE management functions into z/OSMF. Currently, when using Software Update, if there is a problem with the CSI you have to switch to the ISPF Plugin to enter the panel to make appropriate changes to the CSI (such ...
10 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Enhance Kerberos/SKRBKDC limit to more than 2048 sockets

Currently, there is a hard coded limit of 2048 for the number of parallel open sockets for Kerberos / SKRBKDC (see Msg: EUVF04031E Limit of 2048 sockets exceeded). We're using Kerberos authentication for nearly all of our business transactions to ...
6 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

In z/OS the client needs a possibility to create keytab files with the option for custom salts to be used with WAS or other Components

Traditionally the keytab utility was shipped with the IBM Java SDK until Java 8 but misses the functionality to use a custom SALT. From Java 11 on, it was not further shipped. IBM z/OS offers a keytab utility but with very limited support to use a...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

SDSF - update CFS panel in column Encrypt

While the SDSF 'CFS' panel provides a great overview for all details of the structure including encryption details, it would be great if the panel can incorporate the feasibility of encryption or not by structure type. By design, structures from t...
7 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

VLF SMF 41 SUBTYPE 3 - MISSING COFPURGE statistics

Currently VLF statistics tracks ADD, DELETES, TRIM activity. One of the most important activity in terms of VLF CPU usage is the PURGE activity (COFPURGE). SMF 41 should track also COFPURGE. The purge activity consumes when the cache has many entr...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Not under consideration

Anticipating RACF profiles that reaching maximum size

IRR411I message indicates when a profile reached the maximum output size that RACF can handle (65 535 bytes), but it is not possible to know the real size of a profile at a given moment to anticipate this situation. Would it be possible to impleme...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

To be complete, the IPCS SUMMARY COMMAND dispatchablity information needs to go beyond TCBFLGS4 and also include WEB dispatchablity information plus more

From IPCS, the SUMMARY command is widely used to determine the state of a TCB in a given address space. That includes the TCBFLGS4 non-dispatiblity flags. For example, if a TCB was in an RB wait via the Wait service, IPCS would state that 'Top RB ...
12 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Planned for future release

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