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Enhance 119 subytype 70 and 3 to include jobname information

I would like to see a field added to the 119 subtype 70 and 3 SMF records so that the jobname can be captured. Jobname information is critical when remediating unencrypted FTP's for PCI.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Improve CSM Administrative Usability (settings, monitoring and tuning)

This requirement describes the need to improve various usability aspects of managing z/OS CS CSM storage, in terms of CSM settings, monitoring and tuning. Setting the appropriate values for CSM settings (vs. using system defaults) for a z/OS syste...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker for VTAM Startups (ATCSTRxx and ATCCONxx)

I often thought it would be good if commands such as the ones listed below existed to weed out any problems that might occur during IPL time when VTAM starts up. Finding out about a syntax error or missing member from VTAM's startup config lists a...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add MVS system symbolic support to FTP.DATA

Please consider adding MVS system symbolic support to FTP.DATA.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Option to disable TCPIP command output echo in JESMSGLG

Provide a way to configure TCPIP to not duplicate output from display commands into the JESMSGLG DD for my started task. This could be an optional parameter to disable that echoing of command/output. Example - if I do a D TCPIP,,N,DEV command from...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Fail to open RRDS (V) in C language program

It is failed to open a RRDS(V: variable record length), would you share me some experience on this, or help me to know what's wrong and how to deal with it? The "C" program is submitted through a JCL job in MVS. And someone else met with a similar...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 5 Not under consideration

Add Where used in VIEW DETAILS display of IPSEC rules

When we do a View details it would be great if we can get another spot in the PDF that says what LPARS this is being used in as part of the report
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide an interface to regular expression processing for LE conforming languages

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG12001; Voting Priority=2.6 +5=1 +4=4 +3=10 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=2 -1=1 Priority=2.6 IBM should provide an interface to regular expression processing from LE conforming languages that does not require th...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

Please Add Exit for FTP JCL Errors

One of our customers has an JCL job with an FTP step. They are using SITE parameters in that step. When there is an error on the SITE parameter, the user wants to the job to exit with a RC higher than 0. They would prefer RC16. I am not able to he...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Need to break up roles for IPSEC command

We need to get the –f default and the –f reload IPSEC commands seperated from our the other standared commands on the system. This will allow us to assign the proper rolls to them for elevated access. This would also be true for Defense Management...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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