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Capacity Provisioning Manager use of RMFIII Delay Data and Performance Index

Current Problem: CPM provisioned numerous times due to SRVCLASSes breeching their monitored performance index thresholds while using very low CPU, during high CEC/LPAR processing. Suggested enhancements: 1) WLM produces a notated performance index...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 3 Delivered

CSSMTP TLS enhancement

It's possible to enable the SMTP server and client to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide private, authenticated communication over the Internet. As per SMTP protocol definition a client server connection will be closed as soon as the cl...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Configuration Assistant ability to select and operate on multiple rules at a time (Delete, Enable, Disable etc)

IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server: The ability to select and operate on multiple rules at one time – Delete, Enable, Disable etc. Note: this RFE created by IBM from RFE 86000. That RFE contained multiple requirements, spli...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Delivered

Enhance diagnosis by providing dump format of routine storage address when interpreting BPNPCNUM when running zACS

Enhance the output of the two BPNGPCN and BPNGSVCN programs that are run for zACS - Authorized Code Scanner: provide a short dump of the storage around the storage address identified for the PC and/or SVC entry. Perhaps something like plus/minus 1...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner 2 Delivered

z/OSMF Rest Files - Custom Account Code

Please, make it possible to pass the desired account code when calling the rest api.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

REST API for registration of portable package in z/OSMF

I have a portable package available in USS and I would like to register this package via API in z/OSMF.I want to eliminate all UI interaction with z/OSMF to be able to automate provisioning of CA Products.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Add parmlib support to enforce DSN RACHECK when IGNORE processing is requested

Currently when the end user specifies IGNORE processing the dataset name check is bypassed. DFSMSrmm should introduce a parmlib parameter to enforce the dataset name check even when IGNORE processing is requested. This would allow better security ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

CSSMTP should allow SYSOUT class specification for error reports

When CSSMTP detects an invalid SPPOL file, it can optionally generate a report that describes the error(s). This is accomplished by using the Report statement in the CSSMTP configuration file. Unfortunately, when setting the Report statement to SY...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

GDKUTIL setup exec SYS1.SAXREXEC(GDKAUTHP) Cloud Provider List should not always be empty if ~/gdk/providers exists

The developers of this utility have asked me to open an RFE for this change. See IBM case TS010292335 where I note that: Doc for GDKUTIL mentions that the following dirs should be created as follows in case local customization is needed: mkdir ~/g...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

PTF CHECKSUM TO VERIFY INTEGRITY

A shipped PTF should contain an MD5 checksum, or signature which SMPE can verify to insure that the PTF content has not been altered. The customer should have the option of a BYPASS if the alteration is deliberate and justified.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 3 Delivered