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Provide better messaging and prevent hang situation in dynamic RRSF main switching

Prevent blocking situations when user is starting a RRSF dynamic main switch if conditions of empty inmsg data sets is not met. Currently it is difficult to detect what the reasons are if a RRSF dynamic main switch is not completed. IBM should try...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

System utilities should produce more parseable output

IBM system utility output can be unnecessarily verbose. Most utilities produce page numbers, multiple headings, etc. Quite often this is not useful and must be filtered out by programs or scripts before or during processing. It would be be very us...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 4 Future consideration

IBM z/OSMF REST API support user token authentication

Currently z/OSMF REST API support the following ways of authentication: -Basic authentication -Certificate authentication -Web token authentication We'd like to have user token or private key authentication supported, such that users don't need to...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ALLOCATE VERB : DSNTYPE

Complete PDSE support
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

Provide user exit points for some commands in FTP server & client.

It would be beneficial for customers that use source code managers to provide user exit points at certain points in command processing. For example, by allowing a server LIST, RETR, or STOR command to access an API or insert a SUBSYS= value for a ...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

How can we detect all list of RACROUTE calls with LOG=NONE for all codes of IBM on OMVS? Is there any way to find out list of RACROUTE calls with LOG=NONE and fix them?

We have focused on why violations on IBM USS side sometimes are not logged . Our Security team have asked this question to support of our ESM (External Security Manager) product. They advised us to contact with you to fix those issues for the U...
7 months ago in z/OS / USS 3 Not under consideration

ixglogr offload elapsed records

For effective tuning of the system logger it would be advantageous to have the data for offload elapsed times available. Currently this would only seem to be available through a ctrace. this request is to enable records for offload elapsed to be a...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 3 Not under consideration

Add a section identifier to the Binder API buffers

This is an enhancement suggestion for the Binder API. To correlate section level data returned by the Binder API, you need to match on section names. This is both within a single call and across calls. Example 1: The IDRL (Language Processor IDR) ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

zERT Network Analyzer - resume data upload after connection to DB2 is restored

Request for z/OS® Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) We would like to request a change for zERT to automatically resume the connection to DB2 and data upload after the connection is dropped.There could be an option to define how many attempts ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Allow /usr/sbin/chmount to be able to change SETUID/NOSETUID dynamically

At the moment there is no dynamic way of switching between SETUID and NOSETUID using /usr/sbin/chmount. If you need to switch between these two mode it requires an umount/mount of the file system and potentially an outage of the application using ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration