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Enhance System SSL tracing

Enhance z/OS System SSL trace to produce a more descriptive/interpreted display of all the fields for CLIENT-HELLO and SERVER-HELLO messages instead of just a hex dump.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / SSL 2 Not under consideration

Support insecure mode in the Web Enablement Toolkit for SSL connections

The curl program provides insecure mode that bypasses verification of certificates during an SSL connection and allows the connection to proceed. This is not ideal in a production environment but very useful during application development when sel...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Add LOC= parameter on RACROUTE EXTRACT macro

The z/OS Security Server RACROUTE EXTRACT macro only support returning a 24bit EXTRACT response area. The response info may exceed the amount of 24bit storage in an MVS address space. We would like support to be added for a LOC=ANY parameter so th...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

additional information for certificates in keystores

additional information for certificates in keystores (RACF, .kdb, .jks )Data-installation-fieldLast-use-date for certificatesLast-use-date for keyrings and certificates in keyrings plus SMF-records for certificates (also information in logs, cms,…...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Provide option for open() and fopen() to set the CCSID of a newly created file

Support a new environment variable that would make LE's runtime open() and fopen() functionsset the attribute of a newly created file to a given CCSID. This environment variable could be named something like _EDC_NEW_FILE_CCSID. If set, for exampl...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Real time SMF need support high level language APIs (Restful, Java, Phython, etc, priority from high to low)

Hope to provide higher level language APIs (Restful, Java, Phython, priority from high to low) support to get real time SMF.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Component name in IFGRPL

When the Vsam has no more volumes, there's a need to make an extent by idcams.To automate de idcams jcl, there's a requirement to know the component name of vsam to extent, but there's no information of that in ifgrpl. we need this information in ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

An easy to use pre-installation CFSizer

This is a really old request for having an easy to use pre-installation CFSizer. I'm sure others have made the same request. A search in RFE reveils sort of same requests - but for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to see the full request.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

zOSMF Configuration Assistant Multi-User Support

Enhancements to zOSMF Configuration Assistant to allow for multi-user access.1. Browse only capability to allow multiple users to browse Configuration Assistant while a single user has update capability.2. Action only capability to allow multiple ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

When an enclave is quiesced from the ENC panel, document in the syslog what tasks and parent tasks are quiesced.

Today, if you quiesce an enclave, there is no auditing information injected into the syslog as to the tasks being quiesced. More importantly, it's parent task is not documented in the syslog.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration