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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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ICSF TR-34 support

In order to comply with PCI 3 (Payment Cards Industry) requirements for elimination of the usage of SHA-1 in RSA cryptography, as well as the requirement for "key bundling", NCR has elected to implement support the following "technical recommendat...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 8 Delivered

z/OSMF Software Update autorization

Unable to specify job card user-id when using the Software Update feature in z/OSMF.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Unix Syslogd Support as additional transport mechanism for messages on HMC and SE to remote syslogd gatherer

To comply with PCI DSS requirements a central syslog gathering server is installed in our infrastructure and especially the distributed systems send all their relevant messages to this instance using the syslogd function. To integrate the HMC and ...

Add FEAT command to FTP server

Add support for FEAT command to FTP server on z/VM
over 7 years ago in z/VM 3 Delivered

Add CAC Support to SSL Server

We rely on a CMS based application web server to handle HTTPS connections. The web server is assembler based, and uses the IUCV socket APIs to communicate with z/VM TCP/IP. The web server currently supports SSL natively with client certificate aut...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

Allow Changing Password from z/OSMF Login

Currently, when a user with an expired password attempts to login to z/OSMF they will receive a rejection to their logon. Users should be presented with a process to update their password from within z/OSMF itself. The current user experience is u...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

Provide support for x25519 curve with TLS v1.2

IBM System SSL doesn't expect a remote peer to choose named curve X25519 if TLS handshake negotiates protocol level TLSv1.2. Please provide support for x25519 curve with TLS v1.2.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Delivered

Enable dsadm (dsfs) to support more granular high level qualifier for createparm

Currently DSFS only support a single level high level qualifier for the dsadm createparm path (e.g. IBMUSER). Please expand this to multiple levels (e.g. IBMUSER.TEST). The psmodel/pdsmodel's may be different with different qualifier levels.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Delivered

Support for querying PTF/APAR/SYSMOD/USERMOD status from REST API

Hi, I work for the GTS Global Service Engeneering team and we are developing some automation solutions around SMPE and we need a function to query for status of a certain PTF via REST API. This is very critical for IBM GTS in order to automate wor...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Display the CATSYSIDs in LISTCONTROL OPTION specified in EDGRMMxx parmlib member.

Today there is no possibility to display the CATSYSIDs specified in EDGRMMxx parmlib member. The RMM LISTCONTROL OPTION subcommand shows only one of SET, NOSET or * (Asterisk) . As for all other settings the list of systems should be shown.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered