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mainframe vulnerability patch or ptf level equivalent information

Over the past years, there have been a regular discussion with our internal auditors about the state (and value) of a vulnerability test for the mainframe. With each audit, the internal auditors have elevated their assessments deeper and deeper in...
over 7 years ago in z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Change path to NCA database in z/OSMF

It should be possible to use the same database from the NCA-plugin from different z/OSMF Instances. So we could define a HA-environment for z/OSMF (running 2 instances)
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Support Kubernetes for zCX

Add support for Kubernetes for zCX
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Not under consideration

enhance ICSF panel R to list out the ACPs the same way as the TKE workstation.

Hi there, Currently ICSF panel R only alphabetically lists out only the enabled ACPs in just one big list. ICSF manual alphabetically lists out all available ACPs but also in one big list. my RFE is to request for ICSF panel R enhanced to list out...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Add CSA Information to SMF Record Type 30 Data

Please add SQA/ESQA/CSA/ECSA utilisation data to SMF type 30 records. We often need to understand SQA/ESQA/CSA/ECSA utilisation changes over time but SMF data doesn't provide that level of detail.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Future consideration

List available SSL/TLS Ciphers with info about use of Crypto Cards

In CICS communication (SSL/TLS) with ATM a Cipher is selected/negotiated. Please make a list of all ciphers with informations about which can run in the CryptoCard e.g. CEX6C (HW) to offload the usage of CPU, and which can only run using the norma...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

GDPS z/VM online/offline volumes hindering an ENABLED HYPERSWAP status

We have a GDPS environment with z/OS and z/VM and we are testing such that we have both participating in HYPERSWAP. The z/VM has a list of volumes for z/VM's use and those volumes are known to both z/OS and z/VM but z/OS volumes are only ever brou...
over 4 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Parm to remove report lines from IXCMIAPU

Please add a PARM to IXCMIAPU so that it does not issue line breaks, page counts and report headers ADMINISTRATIVE DATA UTILITY: REPORT DATA TYPE = CFRM 06/12/2019 17:30:16 PAGE 4 ___________________________________________________________________...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Ability to route SSL workloads to CEXC instead of CPACF.

Ability to route all SSL crypto functions to the CEXC. Customer need a switch to move workloads off the CPACF and to the CEXC to reduce MSUs.
about 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Not under consideration

Enable AT-TLS clients to send certificate_status extension

To get OCSP stapling working the server side must be enabledto support OCSP stapling and the client side must senda certificate-status extension with it's handshake to requestthe OCSP information during the handshake. With parameter OCSPServerStap...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

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