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Allow option for V TCPIP,,SYSPLEX,QUIESCE to persist across IPLs

We use the V TCPIP,,SYSPLEX,QUIESCE,TARGET command as part of a high availability strategy to isolate a problem LPAR and remove it from distribution. This works well, but the status is reset when TCPIP is restarted. We would like the ability to al...
5 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Define the conflicting certificates have same public key within RACF database

RACF database should have certificates with same public key to be defined. As long as certificates have different serial number, they should be consider as different certificates. Since Digicert has created two intermediate CA which have different...
12 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

All error messages for shell tools should be complete and NOT require referencing a Messages and Codes manual

Receiving a message like this (example from DSFS dsadm command): IDFS00329E Could not set creation parameters, return code 126 reason code ED07621A. Is confusing and meaningless to the average OMVS shell user. They are not used to finding a messag...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 4 Not under consideration

Rust Language Support for z/OS

Rust is a very powerful, memory safe system programming language that would be extremely useful on the mainframe platform. Rust would also be able to use existing z/OS C libraries as it natively supports linking to C libraries. My hope would be s...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 2 Not under consideration

Enhance ALL ISPF Member Lists with PDSE Member Generation Support

Enhance ISPF member lists, however and where ever generated, to include PDSE member generations in a seamless display.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add a specific CSF messages id to monitor the correct/(or not) initialization/start-up) of the CSFTTCP started task

Dear, In order to monitor the start-up of the CSFTTCP adress space with CA-OPSMVS automate and according to our standards we would like to have the possibility that CSFTTCP started task generates to the console specific messageids for the correct(...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Enable 4-Char-Ciphers via environment Variable in Web Enablement Toolkit

Hello there at RFE-Center,we have to use 4-Char Cipher Specs in our zOS Web Client applications. These clients use the z/OS web client enablement toolkit, version 2.4.I know that the toolkit provides the HWTHSET call with the option HWTH_OPT_SSLCI...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Use more frequent commits when importing SMF data in to the zNA database to reduce Db2 resource consumption

Committing every 1000 inserts would be a good starting point This number needs to be customizable so we can adjust based on our needs as workloads and reporting needs change over time Our preferred solution to the lack of commits would be to use t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

DFSMSdss COPY CONVERT PDS to PDSE V?

Presently, ADRDSSU can only convert a PDS to PDSE Version 1. Would be prudent to be able to choose between PDSE Version 1 and Version 2; especially since IBM recommends Version 2 in most use cases.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration