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Add Metadata on object storage

Hi, We need to add some metadata when we download file to Object storage. Like sysplex_name, Lpar_name, record_format, dataset_organisation User_name etc.. The goal is to have more information on the files, and to secure object. It should be possi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Allow to upload a workflow and an input file from a workstation

Currently while creating workflow it is possible specify XML file and an input file locations only on z/OS host. Is this possible to implement uploading of the files using browser?
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

PKI services for z/os : remove ldap CRL distribution point.

In our shop we sign sub CA's for open systems with PKI services for z/OS. While signing the certificate signing request, we add the HTTP-CRL distribution point.As a result, the actual sub CA certificate will contain 2 CRL distrubution points. 1. o...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Delivered

USS Fork Process Causes Demotion of 1M Pages

APAR OA41307 caused RSM to demote 1M pages to 4K pages when invoking the COPYSRVH function during fork processing. This is a potential performance problem and negates the advantages of large pages
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 1 Delivered

Support extra wide output from "ps"

As we start to set up a Java environment on z/OS, we are finding that some of the tools that we have on Linux (RHEL in our case) are not available on z/OS. Please support extra wide output in the ps command, similar to how Linux gives the -w optio...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

Set a specific zlib for zEDC stream to use software instead of hardware via a thread-safe method

I need to be able to perform raw deflate/inflate with compression dictionaries. Currently, there is a limitation where the hardware accelerator does not support the zlib function inflateSetDictionary() when using raw inflate. So I would like to be...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 2 Delivered

DBCS Support for CSSMTP

System : z/OS V2.2 MainframeActor : User needing new function.Our customer uses SMTPD and considerates migration from SMTPD to CSSMTP. (Action for SMTPD abolition in the future)Description : we need DBCS(Japanese) Support for CSSMTP.Without the fo...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Expose job name and job ID in Workflow REST API

The Workflow REST API does NOT expose Job ID and Job Name for a completed workflow step. This makes it impossible to retrieve any job output in an automated fashion. The Job ID and Job Name are exposed in the z/OS MF web application, so the values...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

Enhance BPXMRPWD __passwd syscall to pass IP information to the RACF logstring field at time of SMF recording

Enhance BPXMRPWD as part of __passwd syscall processing so that the IP address is recorded in the logstring field in type 80 records. See PMR 92769 L6Q 000 and updates from John Shebey.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Delivered

We would need ICSF hash service to support BCRYPT.

We opened the SFSW TS004628935 because our development team wanted to hash passwords using BCRYPT (based on Blowfish). They confirmed me that OWH hashing service cant´t use BCRYPT. They suggest me to open a RFE to ask if it is possible that ICSF h...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Delivered

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