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z/OS

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Send TCP/IP reply traffic over the same interface

Provide a way to force the TCP/IP Stack to send reply traffic over the same interface that the request came in on.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Test Submission Disregard

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/24/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test Submission Disregard
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Not under consideration

Test idea for SHARE 2

Please ignore this is a test
4 months ago in z/OS / sharetest 2 Not under consideration

Program control and system symbols

Hello Our colleagues make intensive use of system symbols when they install new softwareor do some maintenance. They can use it also for APF libraries and so on. Now we are struggling when we want make use of system symbols for program controlled ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Enhance visibility and validity of AT-TLS Certificate Chains

We would like to request the following enhancements to AT-TLS/System SSL/PAGENT with respect to certificate chain visibility and validation: 1) Provide a command to display the certificates that were selected/cached by ATTLS, to remove any doubt ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Not under consideration

Change DSMON to repot on dynamically loaded RACF exits

I'm sure this was been asked before and will probably be rejected BUT it would be nice for program ICHDSM00 to be able to report on and handle dynamically loaded RACF exits.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow Sort Work (Temp datasets) to go multi volume

Could you please enhance DFSMS DFSORT to allow work files (Sort work/temporary files) created during SORT processing to go multi volume. Other temporary datasets can now go multi volume apart from SORT work datasets.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

Sysplex Distributor decisions monitoring

We consider to implement new settings of sysplex distributor for WAS and DDF workloads. According to manuals, in DISTRIBUTED mode it cooperates with WLM, which assigns weights to each DVIPA network address separately. https://www.ibm.com/support/k...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Suppress system dump for Converter errors caused by user data open failure

The doc for IEC036I 002-B0 indicates it's almost certainly a user error. Because it appears in the SYSLOG as a JES ABEND it frightens our operators, and causes us sysprogs to stop what we're doing to see if JES2 is sick. Couldn't IEFVH1 be smart ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Supply z/ERT code as open-source

z/ert is only available for SMF 119 subtype 12.I would like to use the idea of z/ERT to check the other SMF 119 records. Use a z/ERT like program to retrieve certain connection information ex. Subtype 3 or Subtype 22 If the source code would be pr...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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