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z/OS

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Allow allocation of RRSFLIST to be suppressed

RACF RRSF ALU command with AT or ONLYAT results in allocation of the RRSFLIST data set with limited naming conventions and no ability to suppress.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Need FTP for z/OS to support substitution for MBCS data translation

Need FTP to support substitution for MBCS data translation like SBSUB, DBSUB, and UCSSUB options.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow an override to TCP/IP global IPCONFIG MULTIPATH

Provide a mechanism for preventing Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing in z/OS TCP/IP that doesn't require a dynamic routing protocol
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Configuration Assistant Health Reports

When I create a health check report for it seems to be missing critical information. IPSEC health check shows nothing for the time conditions unless you go to a specific rule and view details. QOS health check shows nothing for the advanced sysple...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Unable to use GDGs as output datstest for Encryption Facility for z/OS. For further details please refer to 13643,047,649

Unable to use GDGs as output dataset for Encryption Facility for z/OS. For further details please refer to 13643,047,649
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

Allow ICSF to use a caller supplied ACEE and STOKEN on RACROUTE authorization requests

ICSF provided callable service CSFACEE to allow the requestor to supply a security environment using a RACF ENVR, to be used by ICSF when performing authorization checks rather than the default ACEE. But that does not help in environments, like Db...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Not under consideration

Message EZY1293E INITAPI for CSKL does not include reason code ( errnojr )

We are running CICSTS5.3 I receive the following message:EZY1293E 07/17/17 07:46:05 INITAPI CALL FAILURE TRANSACTION = CSKL TASKID= 0000097L ERRNO= 156 The 156 is referring to USS but I see no further messages and the OMVS segment and directories ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Panel ISRUTBP2 should support Query and Stats commands.

Panel ISRUTBP2 displays a list of ISPF tables. Please add line commands to invoke TBQUERY and TBSTATS services and display the results in a new panel.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

strnlen.c support

strnlen.c is a widely available function in open systems/open source. Currently we have to code our way around this not being natively available in z/OS c/c++. strlen.c is available on z/OS and it would be a great enhancement for us if strnlen.c w...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration

encryption Facility for z/OS

When we use ASCII Transcodage table with Encryption Facility for OpenPGP on MVS LPAR ( option -t ISO-8859-1 ), we've got a strange result in the following case. When Encryption Facility transcode Hex Characters suite x'OD25' before Encryption, dec...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Not under consideration