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Option to ignore CRL expiry date in TR34 ICSF services

TR34 RKL ICSF services CSNDT34B and CSNDT34D uses CRL from CA for generating the TOKEN. One of the CA is sending a CRL valid for only one day, but confirmed that the EPP does not validate the CRL End date. Is it possible to provide an option to ig...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

System SSL and AT-TLS

Provide ability for AT-TLS defined Applications to maintain their Jobnames for use in GSKSRVR SSL Component Traces. Currently, all AT-TLS Applications fall under JOBNAME=TCPIP.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / SSL 4 Future consideration

Support special characters [<>&"] in the password (PW) attribute of the HTTPPROXY element in the SCMPCLNT DD input stream

We are trying to use the "network delivery" function of SMP/E. At our site we need to go through a proxy server to access the Internet. The proxy server requires a "service account" userid and password to be authenticated using NTLM. However, the ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

We need to monitor the InfiniBand activity by CHPID via RMF

We just implemented some CHPIDs , COUPLE Links 1x between 2 sides 16Km long , into Production System but we can NOT see the individual rates of each CHPID . Via RMF III , SYSPLEX / CFSYS , we can see the Subchannel , Paths ,Sync and Async requests...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

SSI 80 Data Set List Request to JES2 should return correct attributes even if changed after data set creation

One of our products, Entire System Server, has a component to collect information about jobs and SYSOUT data from JES2 and JES3. When it was written in 2000, it used the SSI 80 request types available back then as well as JES2 and JES3 services e....
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm SEARCHDATASET

The ability to search for tape data sets that had a MANAGEMENTVALUE assigned, in looking at the SEARCHDATASET command, I foundyou can search for MANAGEMENTCLASS or NOMANAGEMENTCLASS, but not MANAGEMENTVALUE or NOMANAGEMENTVALUE. I can generate it ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Planned for future release

DFSort support for non-extended encrypted files

Our company intends to use pervasive encryption to encrypt our mainframe datasets, but DFSort currently does not support non-extended encrypted files. It is crucial that this support is implemented since all our sorting is done through DFSort and ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Planned for future release

Enable DIAGxx operator command parameter modification function

The ability to be able to issue an Operator command would enable real-time dynamic modification to the individual DIAGxx parameters without the need (or permission/authority) to update a PARMLIB member. This would also enable automation code (Rexx...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Not under consideration

Command to remove/add library from LLA/VLF.

To make it more easy and efficient to maintain libraries on the linklist and LLA/VLF, it would be nice if a F LLA command could remove a library without the need to create a CSVLLAxx parmlib member which is time consuming.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_General 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF API upload to RECFM FBA should not add character in column 1

Using zOSMF API to upload a file into a RECFM FBA Partitioned data set will add a reserve character in column 1. This occurs every time the file is uploaded and can cause record truncation.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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