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z/OS

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Set a specific zlib for zEDC stream to use software instead of hardware via a thread-safe method

I need to be able to perform raw deflate/inflate with compression dictionaries. Currently, there is a limitation where the hardware accelerator does not support the zlib function inflateSetDictionary() when using raw inflate. So I would like to be...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 2 Delivered

DBCS Support for CSSMTP

System : z/OS V2.2 MainframeActor : User needing new function.Our customer uses SMTPD and considerates migration from SMTPD to CSSMTP. (Action for SMTPD abolition in the future)Description : we need DBCS(Japanese) Support for CSSMTP.Without the fo...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Expose job name and job ID in Workflow REST API

The Workflow REST API does NOT expose Job ID and Job Name for a completed workflow step. This makes it impossible to retrieve any job output in an automated fashion. The Job ID and Job Name are exposed in the z/OS MF web application, so the values...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

Enhance BPXMRPWD __passwd syscall to pass IP information to the RACF logstring field at time of SMF recording

Enhance BPXMRPWD as part of __passwd syscall processing so that the IP address is recorded in the logstring field in type 80 records. See PMR 92769 L6Q 000 and updates from John Shebey.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Delivered

We would need ICSF hash service to support BCRYPT.

We opened the SFSW TS004628935 because our development team wanted to hash passwords using BCRYPT (based on Blowfish). They confirmed me that OWH hashing service cant´t use BCRYPT. They suggest me to open a RFE to ask if it is possible that ICSF h...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Delivered

Provide http proxy support for openssh sftp

Provide a module to be used in sftp -o ProxyCommand=<module> command , which basically will sopprt a http proxy . An example connect.c can be found in http://gist.github.com/360940
over 5 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Delivered

zOSPT - "One Button" display of public variables (CP&M)

We would like an easier, "one button", solution for end users to be able to view the variables for their recently spun up CICS region in zOSPT. Currently, the end user would have to utilize the "zospt inspect" command (Don't want end users to have...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Delivered

Record TLS level on SMF 110 records for each transaction

Record the TLS level used when each connection is negotiated with a CICS region on an SMF 110 record.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

HCM for Windows 11

Our corporation is rolling out Windows 11 on all workstations and to ensure functionality not only in our environment, an update is unavoidable.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / HCM 0 Delivered

Project to replace CA TLMS wih IBM DFSMS /rmm

An Italy bank is a new GTS outsourcing customer. The Transition and Transformation project is currently underway. IBM GTS has started a Project to replace CA TLMS with IBM RMM. We opened the PMR 20595 and we request an RFE to modify IBM RMM code. ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered