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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

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

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

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

Enhance zERT to Detect Non AT-TLS connections.

The product only identifies traffic if it uses ATTLS for encryption. Not all products or app servers connecting to us use ATTLS. For example, MFT is AES256 and yet they show up as unsecured. Same with CICS gateway and others.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RMFIII WFEX in batch mode with longer time ranges from 7 to 30 days or more

WFEX (Work Flow Exception) is a performance tool that directly facilitates determination of causes/reasons for delays in workloads. However, the interactive facility on TSO has limitations, it only captures events interactively on short time range...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 12 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

DFRMM ABENDU0006: handling I/O errors to the CDS

RMM issues an ABENDU0006 to indicate that a problem was encountered when trying to perform I/O to the RMM control data set. In some cases this abend is not needed and could be handled in a less disruptive way that does not require customer interve...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Allow passphrases on a line mode logon to TSO

Currently passphrase support is enabled only for Full screen logon mode to TSO. Please enable passphrase support for line mode logon, (for customized IKJEFLD1 that switches of Full screen mode flag).
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Provide support function for coordinating out-of-band access to data sets

IBM provides a function called "zdsfs" for Linux on z Systems that can be used to directly read certain types of z/OS data sets located on dedicated DASDs shared between z/OS and Linux LPARs. As this access currently occurs without explicit coordi...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Not under consideration