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Make OSA ICC Console Shared Certificate to use as CA signed with Pertinent infor such as Country Code, etc.

We like to have Shared Certificate as a option also like Individual Certificate to have it as CA signed. Right now, there is no way to have Shared Certificate to be CA signed to put in Country code and all the pertinent information. We need this s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Allow SRCHFOR parameters like WORD and PREFIX to be usable on command

Currently, to use WORD or PREFIX or other Parameters for the SRCHFOR command, I have to enter SRCHFOR with no other parameters on the Command Line to get a SRCHFOR panel. I want these parameters on the SRCHFOR command like FIND already has.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

ISPF Edit Compare must support ascii files such as z/OSMF XML ones

ISPF Edit Compare does not work correctly with ascii files in a z/OS Unix file system, though it works correctly with EBCDIC files in a z/OS file system. Using ISPF Edit Compare in option 3.17 for z/OS Unix files on z/OS 2.2 at RSU1703, the COMP *...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Mechanism during DFDSS Restore for Restoring encrypted datasets wth RENAMEUNCOND

Provide an mechanism in DFDSS where:1) if a user restores an encrypted dataset from a backup and specifies renameunconditional to a new name....and2) the new name being used has a RACF dataset profile associated with it that has a DIFFERENT key la...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Add Certificate Information to TLS command

When updating our certificates in our environment we would use a packet trace to confirm that our certificate updates occurred. This method worked since in TLS 1.2 and earlier the Server Hello would have the certificate in visible in the flow. How...
8 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Request for a conversion code in the Toolkit for COBOL

We have a zSeries COBOL program using the HTTP z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit to act as http client. The program receives a JSON string from the partner system, which is parsed by the toolkit HWTJPARS, then values are extracted using HWTJSRCH....
over 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Additional protection needed for critical data, in order to further prevent accidental deletion

On August 20 our storage team caused an unfortunate issue, while cleaning a volume on the behest of the customer DB Systel. On the LPAR BLP7, an outage was caused, as the active primary and backup RACF db-s were deleted. While this was remedied an...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Display machine bundle level with a z/OS operator command

Currently, there is no z/OS operator command to display the MCL bundle level for a z machine.Enhance D M=CPU (or some other MVS command - D IPLINFO or D XCF) to provide this information.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Obviate need for base register when using EZASMI interface

Right now use of the EZASMI interface to TCP/IP sockets programming requires a base register. It would be nice if that were not the case because it hampers development of baseless programs. I'd find it reasonable if a solution were provided based ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ADD HEALTH CHECKER FOR IOS RECOVERY

There are IECIOSxx settings that would be helpful for reducing the recovery time of Channel Path errors.However, unless you are aware of them, they do no good. there are 100's of parameter settings and as IBM discovers best practices, adding IBM H...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration