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Enable support of more than 100 characters passed as parameters to RSH batch from JCL

After z/OS V2.1, JCL PARMDD statement is introduced to be able to pass the long parameter of more than 100 bytes to any program from JCL.But PARMDD doesn't support RSH at the moment because RSH doesn't have LONGPARM attilibute. I used JCL PARMDD s...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

The Symmetric Algorithm Decipher callable service does not provide support to handle JWE Compact Serialization and none of the other callable services have support for this functionality.

The Symmetric Algorithm Decipher callable service does not provide support to handle JWE Compact Serialization and none of the other callable services have support for this functionality.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Future consideration

OAM Global MAXTAPERETRIEVETASKS - Increase max from 100 to 256

We are in the process of converting from NEAROAM to OAM, we are 50-60 percent complete and have ran into some performance issues on StorageGroups when assigning threads for the MAXTAPERETRIEVETASKS on the SG. Currently, the global MAXTAPERETRIEVET...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

CPU accounting information reported as 0 in IIB, due to limitation in clock() function.

We run IBM Integration Bus on z/OS and use the accounting feature of the product. We use it for distributing the costs internally based on the usage for different message flows.The message flow that consumes the most CPU is reported as 0 CPU consu...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Authentication failure responses should not indicate which part of the authentication data was incorrect

Due to demands from security and compliance people, we would like vendor to implement a general best practice of software security coding. Specific we suggest that “Authentication failure responses should not indicate which part of the authenticat...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

zERT Sessions Exclusion

Provide ability for zERT to exclude loopback to loopback address sessions.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Thin Provisioning support from z/OS guest under z/VM

Now z/VM has no exploitation support for Thin Provisioning function (ESE volumes) yet and RPQ 760-63961 has been approved for limited support.But they want to use the ESE related functions on z/OS guests under z/VM, such as ICKDSF init and DFSMSds...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 2 Planned for future release

Tape temp dataset change request

The management class ACS routine is not driven for tape temp datasets, therefore the MC is not being passed to the TS7700 and uses the default.MC.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Prioritization of mount tasks in DFRMM.

Prioritization of mount tasks in DFRMM. RMM should give mount tasks a higher priority then other tasks like catalog request tasks.In the moment there is no prioritization of tasks and all tasks are queued.RMM should interrupted other tasks and ful...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

The AMAPDUPL program does not invoke the FTP Client program of EZAFTPLC with the AUTH parameter with a value of TLS preventing use of FTPS via AT-TLS

The AMAPDUPL program does not invoke the FTP Client program of EZAFTPLC with the AUTH parameter with a value of TLS preventing use of FTPS via TLS V1.2 via AT-TLS. Do note, that the z/OS FTP Client configuration setting of 'TLSMECHANISM FTP' is ob...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

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