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    ISPF Edit should be site configurable to prevent the Editing of a non-zero PDSE member generation.

    Editing a non-zero (non-base) PDSE member generation is asking for trouble for many reasons, the least of which is that non-zero generations are not able to be accessed via JCL or dynamic allocation. After much discussion on PDSEGEN the decision a...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

    FCTOPPRCP(PRESMIRREQ) failures with ADR935W, while deleting numerous data set just finished Flash Copy on a volume.

    System : z/OS V2R3 / DS8886 R8.2 SP 5.1 - 88.25.8.0 (Same configuration MM Primary and MM Secondary) We run several jobs that consists of DFSMSdss Flash Copy with Preserved Mirror and delete the Flash Copied data set at the same time in daily.We s...
    almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

    XCF_CF_STR_MAXSPACE health check update

    It would be good to update the XCF_CF_STR_MAXSPACE IBM health check so that it displays the current maximum structure space defined in the policy and the current augmented space allocation, when the check is successful. Currently you only see thes...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Functionality already exists

    AI System Service MLz setup to be more z/OS-like

    Currently, the MLz setup for the z/OS AI Services has to be done with z/OS. There is a lot of input and a lot of customer specific customization that has to be done there (security, AT-TLS and other stuff). That could be very complicated. Back in ...
    7 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 1 Not under consideration

    Telum I/II monitoring/reporting/controls

    Add mechanisms to control/limit what applications and workloads (NNDA flagged) will have access to Telum I/II accelerators in the machines. Controls could be done via HMC on a hypervisor level similarly to how processors assignments and weight dis...
    8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

    GDS_RECLAIM should delete/define the GDS versus reusing the same create date

    Currently, when you turn on GDS_RECLAIM the system will reuse an existing GDS if it is in DEFERRED status. This is a great idea except for the fact that the process keeps the original create date. In one instance we had GDS' that were created in F...
    9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

    Encryption Facility should follow RFC 9580 regarding default algorithms lists. DES3 and SHA1 should not be included as they are now deprecated.

    We are using Encryption Factify for z/OS V1.2 in conjunction with RACF to generate X509 Certificates and exporting the corresponding public keys. Our business partner is unable to use these public keys because they contain non-compliant algorithms...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Submitted

    Security-Optimization (Change the validation chain of the PLAz server certificate to a certification authority pre-installed at FI) - PLAz-Tool

    Root certificate for browser import and FI security requirements: Information security policy on the use of cryptographic procedures - For the authentication of communication partners using certificates, only currently trusted certification author...
    4 months ago in z/OS 2 Under review

    Support X-IBM-Dsname-Encoding header when listing data sets and data set members

    Some mainframe developers may use a different encoding when entering the name for a new data set or data set member. However, it seems that z/OSMF converts these names behind the scenes to use the IBM-1047 encoding, so characters in the name are c...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    zERT Analyzer - Allow for inverted filters for TCP/EE Endpoints

    Currently the selected filters for the TCP or EE Endpoints do only allow to use include filters. However, I want to specifically exclude a Server and Client address range, which is currently notpossible. Hence, the plugin shall support the option ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

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