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Certificate Management Capability on Support Elements DRV41C

The ability to access certificate managment task on the support elements in DRV41C, This would give are clients the ability to setup AD LDAP authentication for local logins to the SE via import trusted signed certificate.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Enabling CF R/W data structures access from zCX containers/OCP on zCX

As part of a mainframe application modernization project, the customer (that's me) aims to adopt the Application Centric pattern. This involves rewriting certain portions of the application from Cobol to Java and deploying them on zCX thereby capi...
11 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

HLIST VOLUME - more accurate listing in HSM PLEX

In HSMPLEX environment, ADDVOL ML1 SDSP settings are applied for specific LPAR only, but the HLIST VOLUME from another LPAR lists SDSP=YES (ADDVOL ML1 SDSP was not submitted on that other LPAR)
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Not under consideration

IPCS Provide support for Format of STR(LS)

IPCS CBFORMAT -address- STR(LS) does not format the Linkage Stack data at the address provided, but instead formats a different Linkage Stack. Which LS that is formatted depends upon the type of DUMP (e.g. SVCDUMP or SADUMP) and other variables kn...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 4 Not under consideration

Workflow needs a place to document author, version, change log, etc.

Hi, Currently, the workflow editor doesn't provide a place to keep track of the usual data that developers need. Things like author, version, changes, etc.For example: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow GDK APIs to run on zIIP

Please consider allowing the GDK APIs (primarily gdkget and gdkwrite with a streaming receive/send exit) to be called in with some ability to offload to a zIIP processor. I believe the z/OS Web Enablement Toolkit only supports task (TCB) mode, but...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

config drift for SMS/ACS similar to IODF

Similar to IODF, when it activates, it displays what is being changed... we need to see similar when an SMS is activated. This helps in config drift procedure for audit requirement. Currently we have a rexx procedure to compare before & after ...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

z/OS FTP SERVER to support Kerberos authentication without keytab

Currently FTP server is configured to be a distribute DVIPA and because gss_acquire_cred call doesn't support use_dvipa_override, it would require keytab to be setup for FTP Kerberos to work.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 1 Future consideration

ZEXPAND enhancement for ZCMD

In many cases, the command field on a panel is not defined with an expandable field which prevents the user from entering longer commands without overtly entering the CMDE command to get the expanded command prompt. Enhance ZEXPAND so that when it...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Non-intrusive catalog reorg/transformation to RLS-managed

A completely non-intrusive reorg function is needed to migrate non-RLS catalog to RLS catalog. The strategic direction for z/OS catalogs is RLS management so it behoves IBM / Mainstar to develop a completely non-intrusive function to transform non...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 5 Not under consideration