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API to interrogate global CEA settings

CEA API to be extended to provide a query function which returns the currently-active global settings - that is, those configured via CEAPRMxx parmlib member. For example: TSOASMGR ( RECONSESSIONS(0) RECONTIME(00:00:00) )
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 0 Future consideration

Handle LamAlef character when converting from z/OS to Windows

There is a special handling for LamAlef character when converting from Visual (zOS) to Implicit (Windows) and vise versa. The LamAlef character is expanded into two characters (Lam and Alef) and uses the spaces in the source buffer for its expansi...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Add EMAIL Keyword to ISPF Panel VER Statement

Please add the ability to validate email addresses via the ISPF panel VER statement.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

OAEP support for RSA PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV

Require CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to support OAEP padding. Currently only the older format padding 1.5 is supported
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

Support for VIEW of the ISPF log

In dialog test, panel ISPYXD1 currently supports an option 5, "Browse ISPF log". But browse is not as versatile as View. When using the View service, the dialog developer can use exclude and find commands to filter which lines are displayed, makin...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Ability to group members of PDS for doing one common action

Currently, ISPF does not offer an option to mark the group of members and then choose the action for the selected members on such panels as ISRUDA1 (Option 3.1) and ISRUDSM (Option 3.4 and then select a PDS). It would be very handy to have the sel...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

Granularity for IDS policy

The PMR 94259082000 was opened when it was discovered that enabling IDS caused reporting of malformed packets that were discarded. While the policy was only set to report only mode, the message IDs that we were seeing in the logs were related to w...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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

Add Support for RFC 3522 - Unnecessary Loss Recovery

The Eifel detection algorithm (RFC 3522) allows a TCP sender to detect a posteriori whether it has entered loss recovery unnecessarily.
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