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z/OSMF Dynamic Vipa usage

We operate with two Tcpip stacks, one for internal customers and the other for external clients. When trying to use Dvipa for z/OSMF URL we had problems. We eventually had to add a local_override.cfg file to our configuration to have z/OSMF have a...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow LU, LISTGRP, LISTDSD and RLIST-commands on behalf of the owner of a component

Implementation of profiles like:- IRR.LISTGRP.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.RLIST.OWNER.owninggroup Userids granted to a profile IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.$OAB should be able, to list all dataset-profiles with Owner $OAB.This shoul...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Create a new code page in order to support latest Spanish language changes; namely, using ll and ch as two different chars

We have found a weird behaviour using PL/I REGEX function. After opening a support case, IBM team become aware code page needs some updates. However, it may be easier to build a new one, picking those changes.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Allow software instances to have more than one workflow file

Even IBM written workflow (e.g. zCX) do have multiple files to have a separation between the workflow itself and the JCL or REXX templates. Like that, the workflow is much more maintainable compared to using inline templates. However when creating...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 5 Not under consideration

FTP SOCKS support of USERID/PASSWORD

We would like to implement FTP SOCKS authentication support (USERID/PASSWORD - METHOD x'02')
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance authentication APIs to support returning Identity tokens and accepting them for authentication

RACF recently (z/OS v2R4 and PTF'ed back to z/OS v2R2) added the ability for RACF to return identity tokens which are actually JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and to be able to use them in lieu of a password for authentication. Can APIs, such as __passwd()...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Migration data sets distinguished by different importance of the data sets.

We would like to be able to customize characteristics of migration data sets distinguished by different importance of the data sets. Currently, there is no way to configure specific migration tape data set name for different sets of files.All tape...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

zERT - externalize collection ID for JCC packages

zERT uses the NULLID JCC packages for database access by default and needs specific bind options such as KEEPDYNAMIC(YES) and RELEASE(DEALLOCATE). However, we have to operate other workload with different settings and need the possibility to speci...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add IWQ details to SMF119 subtype 02 records

The IWQ algorithm change introduced in PH43504 means that TCP/IP connections can move from the primary input queue to the bulk data AIQ at any point during the lifetime of the connection. It would be useful to record details of bulk data queue reg...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

IDS Flood IP Address(s) Exclusion

We would like to be able to exclude an IP Address(s) for an IDS Flood Attack. We currently can only exclude and IP Address(s) on these type of attacks: TCP Queue Size Attack EE Malformed Packet Attack EE LDLC Check Attack EE Port Check Attack EE X...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

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