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Improved CF Task and z/OS Subchannel Queue Management

Today, queueing based on subchannel availability is all-or-nothing, for all structures, and any one CF structure can consume 100% of the available subchannels during a spike, causing queueing and delays for all CF structures•APAR OA41203 does not ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit: Add new paramater UTF8 to SOURCE primary command

Since ISPF Edit supports UTF-8 encoding as well as ASCII the SOURCE primary command should have a new possible parameter-value UTF8 to switch to UTF-8 editing during the edit-session.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Need Log for Mails sent by JES2EDS

When we send job event notification mails with the JES2 NOTIFY JCL statement there is no evidence in the job log, the syslog/operlog or in a z/OSMF log about the sent mail.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Request for keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP

We would like a keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP that will give LDAP admins the ability to control how long an idle connection is kept open without being automatically closed by the server.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

Enhance the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter tool to use FTP/S (TLS) instead of plain old FTP

I would like to see the file transfer functions of the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter tool enhanced to use FTPS (FTP with TLS). I had not tried using it until recently. I learned that it would use FTP to transfer generated jobs to our z/OS systems and d...
9 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

SKRBKDC: Support for switching off Replay Detection

We've an application on OSCP. Our security policy says that from docker against z/OS Kerberos have to bee used for authentication. Actually, per server are multiple instances of docker running / per docker multiple threads. Each thread goes agains...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 2 Future consideration

DFHSM without TAPESECURITY(RACF) should not use SPECIAL Attribute

RACF SPECIAL is a critical security attribute.DFSMShsm modifies on Start its own ACEE to get this SPECIAL privilege. But Why?If HSM uses TAPESECURITY(RACF), then HSM has to create and delete RACF Profiles. But without this parameter, no RACF activ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

SSH Closing Down needs to clear all the forked client sessions

Hi Team I was very much surprised to know that there is no such command to clear all the forked client sessions when SSHD is being stopped for an IPL / Recycles and we need to wait for all these sessions to close down or get closed due to being id...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

LE Callable Service for RegEx

RegEx is a basic service to validate that a string is a regular expression. It's been implemented in Java, C, C#, perl, and many others. It's used in ISPF. It even has a Wikipedia entry. It's not available in COBOL. Take the best implementation, e...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Incorporate the REXX Compiler into z/OS

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 08/23/2022 Submitter Name: Lionel B Dyck (Senior Software Engineer) Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: REXX is being shipped with more products on z/OS including system automation and sys...
about 2 years ago in z/OS 0 Not under consideration