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Provide capability to format OSAENTA (concurrently taken from multiple OSAs) in timestamp order

When using IPCS to format OSAENTA traces, have the resulting output be presented in timestamp order even when the input contains traces from different OSAs.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

IPFilter deny message more information needed

Ipfilter deny message "EZD0815I Packet denied by policy" only reports source and destination information's. Outgoing calls typically use the sourcevipa from a given IP-stack. It's very hard to find the issuer for this request, typically for outgoi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

TSO TESTAUTH should load authorized reentrant programs into key 0 storage

Problem: The TSO TESTAUTH command does not provide for locating non-reentrant code in authorized reentrant programs. It loads authorized reentrant code into subpool 251 which is not key 0 thus preventing abends during testing. The programmer could...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

Using ZCMD variable and Control NONDISL commnad

The customer defined several Zstart commands for ISPF. One of the Zstart commands contain a Non-Display panel command such as; 'CONTROL NONDISPL ENTER'; 'DISPLAY PANEL(panelname)' The above command should cause a panel to be processed but not disp...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

DFDSS COPY Security

Want to protect DFDSS COPY FULL function to avoid erasure of dasd, with a RACF profile, since DASDVOL do not work for SMS volumes.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

ATTLS policy applied after SOCKS occur for FTP policy

I was attempting to get a proxy'ed connection for FTP to use ATTLS outbound. I could not get the policy to match on IP and Port due to the fact it was using Socks. This means all of the connections that I have going through my Proxy server has to ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Connect keyring to another keyring as an extension to the first

Allow a Key Ring to be connected to another key ring as an extension to the first -- all the certificates in the second key ring would act as if they were individually connected to the first key ring. a Keyring contains pointers to digital certifi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow "NOTCON" status for all SYSTEMS for Object Storage Groups

NOTCON status is not allowed for all SYSTEMS for a Object Storage Group. This is undesirable when you have a SMS CDS where these storage groups are assigned (but not used) and there is a need for DFSMSoam.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 1 Future consideration

SMTP MAXMSGSENT needs retry interval setting

When on user of a tcpip address sends more then 30 emails to another mail server that server turns all emails off to the sending tcpip address.The SMTP MAXMSGSENT can limit how many connections can be sent to a single tcpip connection. If there wa...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Request new system call from LE on z/OS platform

We have a client who's using C++ collate transform() functions; and has reported an issue with its functionality. After our investigation, our development team has determined that in order to get the desired functionality, we rely on some new func...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

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