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Communications Server SMTP application (CSSMTP)

it would be helpful to exchange emails using greek languange characters (EBCDIC 875)
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

zERT - Match the least common denominator of a rule

With the current setup of Reusable Rules that combines a combination of Traffic Descriptor Data Endpoints TLS or SSH version Protection Characteristics It is required that all of the specifics match to trigger the required action. This beha...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add parm to increase SORTIN and SORTOUT buffers to improve reading and writing throughput

DFSORT's ability to read and write SORTIN and SORTOUT files appears restricted enough to impact the throughput of both Standard files and Striped files. For SORTIN large Striped files can be read 4 times faster by OPTIONs COPY or EASYTRIEVE. CPU u...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

Restore a pre allocated file and change the mgmgtclas

During restore of a file, if i want to change the mgmtclas, i need to delete the file to have the wanted mgmtclas by sysin DSS job (keyword mgmtclas). If the file already exist, i code REPLACE keyword but the mgmtclass is unchanged, MGMTCLAS remai...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance SERVAUTH EZB.PORTACCESS SAF checks to capture the name of the REAL program calling for the port in an 80 record & ICH408I message

When something is abusing the port finding the calling program is not always that easy. So I think it should be possible for z/OS Comm Server itself to record that informaiton somewhere in the type 80 record. It would also be beneficial to add it ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

To have the ODTitle field as an option to the OFLDS

Our printing team manages output utilizing the ODTitle among other fields which was available with the Q command in z/OS V2.4 but removed in V.5 in favor of the JDS panel. They utilize the O panel more than the JDS panel to accomplish their workload.
7 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Issue a IEFA110I message for Dynamic Allocation return code X'020C'

When Dynamic Allocation returns a return code X'0210', message IEFA110I is issued showing the job that is currently using the data set as this example shows. DELETE APP1.TECH.TABLE IKJ56225I DATA SET APP1.TECH.TABLE ALREADY IN USE, TRY LATERIKJ562...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to RACF to notify when there is a prolonged contention on critical RACF resources

We have experienced a prolonged Security Manager resources contention situation where the critical security manager resource is lockup by a low priority task while there is a higher priority task entered a spin loop and consumed all the CPUs in th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

To allow configured the parameter "revoked after unsuccessful password attempts" in the RACF user profile. Actually it is only possible as a generic rule for all the users through the SETROPTS PASSWORD(REVOKE(d)) command

To avoid a DoS (Deny of Service) due a service user revoked because a wrong use of the password causing impact in the applications & services using it.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration