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Provide SOCIPHER support for outbound SSL calls

Currently, CICS 5.1 allows for the recording of which specific cipher was negotiated on an inbound SSL handshake in the CMF performance record. Such support should be extended to outbound SSL handshakes.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Delivered

SE backup via FTP to HMC

Currently backup from SE runs via FTP to an customer server. But our SE are in a secure network environment and no FTP to other network is available. In this secure network is the HMC (a PC tower from IBM) too.We need a FTP funtion on this HMC to ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

Add CALL-HOME function when "Report Loss of Communication" detected as HMC options of z Systems.

In unattended service sites, if the HMC-SE network is disconnected for some failures, no one can find it because there is only H/W messages of "Report Loss of Communication" on HMCs, and there is no option for call-home of it. Therefore, SE failur...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 Delivered

XCF - Return code improvement if the Notepad is unavailable

IBM and Itaú teams discussed the resilience design review of a homemade application which uses the XCF Notepad as a prerequesite for an active/active high availability model. Due to some characteristics of Itaú environment, we agreed that the inab...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Delivered

SVC DUMP generation causes an application time-out error

Before this, SVC DUMP generation from an address space has caused WLM time-out under our WebSphere Application Servers. SVC DUMPs generated tend to grow its size as customer system environments expand. Once SVC DUMP is generated, DUMPSRV puts DUMP...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Delivered

PFI-IT0311-1384 HMC and TKE Workstation as a 19 rack server

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bernd.Daubner@izb.deSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik Technical Services (FI-TS) PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI-IT0311-1384 HMC and TKE Workstation as a 19 rack serverHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Cat...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 5 Delivered

PFI0413-1597 BCPii performance and serialization enhancements

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: tdoerkesSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0413-1597 BCPii performance and serialization enhancementsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status:...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

PCIT0610-1350 HMC support for national characters in the loadparm

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: william.pape@citigroup.comSubmitters Company: Citigroup PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PCIT0610-1350 HMC support for national characters in the loadparmHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyC...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

DFSMSrmm EDGHSKP hold function

Currently, if we wanted to hold RMM EDGHSKP functions, we are not able to do this. F DFRMM,HOLD(HSKP) would only allow you to hold the HSKP function if it was running at the time, but, does not prevent any NEW future HSKP. There is HOLD(ALL) and H...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 6 Delivered

zOSMF Staging Capabilities

Need the ability to define target stacks to perform a “group” upload and apply.Need change management facilities within zOSMF to allow gradual staging of configuration changes.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

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