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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

Change Context Services cell pool to use a cell pool type that can be contracted

Due to extraordinary MQ transaction activity, a dump shows over 37k inflight URs and common storage fragmented by numerous Context Services CIE and CNTX control blocks. These CIE and CNTX blocks are managed by CPOOL and do not get contracted. When...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 1 Future consideration

Allow configuration of FTP client port range

Create parm to restrict FTP client ports in the same way FTP server is allowed to restrict passive ports to a specific range.. This will eliminate a common complaint of firewall admins that they don' want to open a large range of ports in the fire...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands

Please look to add SERVAUTH Class RACF Checks for the TRACERTE, DIG, and PING Commands. The NETSTAT command is already controlled by the EZB.NETSTAT.** profile in the SERVAUTH class.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

syntax checker z/os 2.1 enhance verify valid port portrange statement parms please pmr 69125 Donna

my colleague Nick Down dedeuced that the TCPIP syntaxchecker does not check for consistency between port and portrange statements. This is because the checks are for syntactically correct statements. The syntaxchecker doesn't check for logic error...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

HSM ML2 Tape Selection problem - Scratch volumes requested even if some Partial Tape are available

Scratch volumes requested even if some Partial Tape are available in ML2 Table in TS3500 libraries environment.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

ARM feature or exit to influence TARGET_SYSTEM selection

Need a way to influence the system that ARM selects for a restart. Either new function or an exit that the customer can code.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

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