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Citi requests WJSIPUSE be a formally supported product

Citi has had experience with WJSIPUSE. They asked me if it, or an equivalent, can be formally supported by IBM. I am submitting the request on their behalf.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Add Sack Flag in IPCS with SESS Option

We would like IPCS to flag 'sack' packets when using the 'SESS' option when formatting a packet trace using IPCS.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration

Further modify the PDSE monitor's processing

Through cases of Blocked Workload when lower priority tasks hold resources but do not get sufficient CPU time to complete their work and then release those resources which are in turn being waited on by higher priority tasks. • Seen in CPU constra...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

z/OS LDAP Support for AT-TLS

z/OS LDAP should either add support for AT-TLS or provide instructions for using LDAP while AT-TLS is active.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Add ICSF Flush command

Provide a mechanism to complete any remaining ICSF work in-flight to be executed just prior to lpar shutdown. This would be in lieu of actually stopping ICSF.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Allow multiple Jobnames per rule in AT-TLS Policy. Mask won't work for jobs like J363100, J491001. J* will pull in all jobs.

1. A bank has provided 3 different client server certificates in addition to the usual server certificates. 2. Different applications FTP to the bank from a z/OS Lpar using a batch JCL. Mainframe is the client. 3. For each of the FTP job, we need ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Vary SYNTAXCHECK command

V TCPIP,,SYNTAXCHECK,SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(TELNET03) EZZ0061I VARY SYNTAXCHECK COMMAND BEGINNING EZZ0300I OPENED SYNTAXCHECK FILE 'SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(TELNET03)' EZZ0309I PROFILE PROCESSING BEGINNING FOR 'SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(T ELNE...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

SOCKS Configuration - Limitation

We have a problem with the SOCKS configuration in Mainframe that dont allow the use of DNS on the FTP server destination and only allow the use of IP Address. My concern here is that the network department setup rules on the SOCKS Server (the one ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS Health Check Refresh After IPL

During a recent IPL a typo in the BPXPRMxx member had the incorrect name for a zFS file system. As a result, the mount failed with error message BPXF002I: BPXF002I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.ASYS.ORESB1.COBOL42 WAS 674 NOT MOUNTED. RETURN CODE = 00000081, R...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Group initiator controls in jes2

Currently in Jes3 initiator counts can be controlled at class and group level. In jes2 although there is the concept of groups for classes, initiator counts can only be controlled at class level.I would like to see this introduced in jes2 to confo...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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