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SMP/E Root CA certificate change request

Current IBM SMP/E Root certificate, DigiCert Global Root CA, is using weak SHA1 algorithm. We are working on replacing all certificates using SHA1 with much more secure SHA256. Many vendors already switched their SMP/E client certificates to use ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the syscall readfile to understand file codepage

Currently readfile only appears to understand files that are tagged with IBM-1047. Files tagged with ISO8859-1 are returned by readfile without translation and are thus unreadable on the EBCDIC platform. readfile is a powerful tool for the rexx de...
2 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

OAM recycle function should work similar to recycle in DFSMShsm

Hello,we're user of OAM and HSM for many years. We also have 16 VTS clusters in use.Of course, we also use the logical worm for our tapes.We'd like to have a more effective way (as HSM has) to recycle OAM tapes. With HSM we use HSEND recy ex all p...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

Support the use of underscores in URIs

Our customer's web administrators often generate names with underscores in their URI/URL. I was told this is not supported because underscores are not defined as being part of hostnames. Yet, we're talking about URIs, not hostnames. As per IETF RF...
24 days ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Future consideration

selecting tape volumes to be recycled, or excluded from recycle process, by sms tape storage group

Today's DFHSM RECYCLE command allows to include/exclude volumes by volser range, or volser list, or tape residence. It would be nice to have an option to select volumes using the sms tape STORAGEGROUP as criterion. This would help in keeping to se...
24 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Submitted

Usage of certificate instead of userid/password for log data transfer

To improve the user management process on the Mainframe HMC we want to implement regular automated reviews of the users that do have access to the HMC including the user settings.Instead of using the WebAPI we are planning to regularly send the re...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Allow for debugging on the HMC when configuring a Syslog Server

Currently a Syslog Server can be configured on the HMC but there is no option to validate the connection from the HMC end. The only option the HMC offers is to send a ping. However, when the Syslog Server connection using a TLS connection the ping...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

dsfs/sysout should use stepname.procstepname.ddname

Currently /dsfs/sysout/ ... uses stepname.ddname.something - that can be misleading as multiple steps can use the same ddname - adding the procstepname so it is stepname.procstepname.ddname.something would provide additional granularity and clarity.
6 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

Drop the requirements for VSAM RLS/Sysplex Structure

To make possible to use the new EzNoSQL database without a sysplex.
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 3 Planned for future release

Provide a ascertained historical view of all installed and/or activated capacity records

Why is it useful? In our installation a variety of different capacity records are used on multiple machines with frequent changes to the activated capacity levels. This makes it cumbersome to reconstruct the active capacity levels for any given po...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Functionality already exists

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