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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

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...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 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

List General Resource Classes that were not unloaded by IRRDBU00 in the SYSPRINT output from IRRDBU00

Output from IRRDBU00 is highly dependent upon the general resource classes that are defined on the system where the unload is performed. IRRDBU00 does not unload profiles in classes that are not defined on the system where it is executed and does ...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Report the RACF database template level of each INDDn database in the SYSPRINT output from IRRDBU00

Output from IRRDBU00 is highly dependent upon the level of the templates in the database being unloaded. Knowing the level of the templates can help set expectations as to the contents of the unload. This information can also provide a mechanism f...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under 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

Support TLSv1.3 with CDA and GDK through its provider files

TLSv1.3 is the most recent version of SSL available and it provides enhanced encryption while removing insecure algorithms that were available in prior versions of the protocol. The handshake is more efficient. Sites might mandate using TLSv1.3 or...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Planned for future release

Provide full sysout access (read only acceptable) mirroring SDSF access

Currently with /dsfs/sysout/ the user is only allowed to see and look at spool data that is owned by their userid, which includes any TSO sessions or batch jobs under that userid. With SDSF that same user can view the spool for not only my own sys...
4 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future 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

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

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