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z/OSMF Incident Log Dump Title

Need the Incident Log to contain more information around dump and failing components.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Request IP address override for FTP server response to PASV

We are unable to support our customers who connect through our proxy server over the internet when we turn on at/tls because at/tls does not support 3-way communications. This feature is a common feature of my Windows FTP server partners. This fea...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enable default for VARSTORAGE to be HIGH

Enable an option to specify a system-wide default for VARSTORAGE to be HIGH.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

JPMC RFE is needed to ask for future support to be able to delay, NOT CANCEL the scheduled code upgrade via the HMA. Today, there is no deferral option only a cancel option when approaching scheduled start time.

As there are many occasions where we need to delay the code activate for a period of time within scheduled window and would be a benefit not have to fully cancel and reschedule. Also, we are reluctant to do RCL in production is the inability to do...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

z14 SNMP MIB enhancement add mainframe SN, FRU location and FRU PN included,

For some reason, the mainland mainframe clients DO NOT enable the option of call home, the response time of 7*24 standby servicedepends on the completeness of SNMP message to some extent, which is critical to keep the customer satisfaction and ser...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Add Certificate trust verification in CSNDDSV service

Currently the option to verify the trust of a certificate is possible only by adding the CA and Intermediate CA certificates using TKE into ICSF adaptor. This is new and overhead for the limited ICSF admin team. Add option to verify the signature ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 7 Future consideration

Allow disposition to be specified on fopen

DISP=SHR cannot be set when fopening a file in write mode. In read mode it defaults to DISP=SHR. If the file is a PDS(E) member, this locks out the whole PDS(E) so that no-one can browse the other members. If you use a DD Card, then you can specif...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Add support for MTU size in OSPF DD packets as per RFC 2328

Add the MTU size to OSPF Database Description packets in accordance with RFC 2328
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zFS ACCESS Security

We ask z/OS Security Server to be enhanced to permit zFS to be easily protected, like HFS current protection running for the early life of HFS on z/OS.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Request TR31- SECMSG Support

It is required to extend the ability to export SECMSG type keys in TR-31 format using the CSNBT31X command
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Not under consideration

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