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z/OSMF System Status - update screens with no data to something besides WARNING

When viewing screens with no data, it would be better to present the window as blank or NA, instead of a WARNING
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

v sms,sg(*),space

v sms,sg(sgtoto),space is supportedIt would be fine that :v sms,sg(*),spaceorv sms,sg(sg*),spaceorv sms,sg(all),spacewill be supported
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

Make MODDVIPA available via a console command

It was recommended recently that we use MODDVIPA to ensure that an IP address remains with the stack. //CDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-c XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* - At the end of the proc, add: //DDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-d XXX.X...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under 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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future 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

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

Requesting timestamp to be 'restored' to original for sym links when tar or pax is used to 'unzip' an archive file.

Hello USS Development team, As we prepare to migrate HFS user file systems to zFS I am testing back out scenarios and have observed that both the IBM provided migration utility (BPXWH2Z) and back out options I have tested (tar and pax to copy new ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 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

Provide more granular TCP statistical counters

I'd like to request that IBM add more granular counters for the TCP statistics "EPHEMERAL PORTS EXHAUSTED" value. During a recent incident IBM pointed out that the single TCP stats ephemeral ports exhausted counter can have multiple incrementers: ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

The clock() function that determines process time on z/OS needs to be increased or reset to zero after it reaches max value

We have a PMR 29022,082,000 opened with IBM Integration Bus V10 support about SMF CPU time not reporting correctly for some message flows. L3 found that the clock () function they were using to calculate processor time hit max value so they could ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

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