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Audit outgoing and incoming data

Our auditors always wants to know what data is coming in or is leaving our datacenter. In the logs of system z hardware I can see that data was received or transmitted, but I didn't know what was in the data. The only thing I know is “Transmit ser...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

SE-logs should become more transparent

We are using personaliazed user-ids for our HMC-Users. The default user-ids are all disabled. But when we are logged in single object mode to an SE-element, we don't see the personal users logged in but we only see users like SooSysprog,… for exam...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

NCA FTP is broken

Prior to a recent update, we could use FTP within NCA to send our generated policies to other LPARs. Now FTP does not support application controlled FTP, breaking our AT-TLS rules and resulting in a failure of NCA FTP to connect. To continue using...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Expand EDGSPLCS utility capabilities to support correcting library manager category code discrepancies

The EDGSPLCS utility does not seem to support updating the LM category code for tape volumes. Currently, it seems that the utility can correct the use attribute in the Volcat, or correct the status in the RMM CDS, but not the LM category code.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Not under consideration

Specify of the slot location for the CryptoExpress

Allow customer specification of the slot location for the Crypto card.Customer requested to specify of the slot location of the CryptoExpress with new AP number. It is also effective for ensuring redundancy.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

TCP/IP Support of ACCOUNT Subcommand

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP00002: Voting Priority=2.2 +4=3 +3=5 +2=5 +1=7 abstain=4 Priority=2.2 (Please ignore where voting=0.0 elsewhere) TCP/IP specification defines an ACCOUNT subcommand for use by FTP and TELNET servers. ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

zOS HSM Stack Option Needs to be Increased to more than 255 Limit

The zHSM ARCCMDxx Member provides the following option within the DUMP command and request is to increase the Limit of 255 to 300 or 350/ IBM provides the hardware Compression feature and that utilizes zEDC feature, so I would assume that IBM DF/S...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

Enable the exchange of MDK keys to Visa using TR-31 Key Block Version B, mode of use=N

We are unable to send MDK keys to Visa using TR-31 Key Block Version B as they use Thales payShield HSMs which only support Mode of Use=N whereas IBM only supports Mode of Use=X.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 3 Planned for future release

Specifying subchannel set id on 'IPL Attribute List' panel in HCD

We are interested in knowing if we will be able to specify the CSS as part of the IPL address on the 'IPL Attributes List' panel of HCD.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / HCD 2 Future consideration

RM(EXPDT) settings should be more like disk

The difficulty with using Management class and Retention Method(EXPDT) is that on some of our systems we cap the lastref days at 396. If however we set Whilecatalog(On) for a GDG than as long as it's cataloged it will be kept until it rolls off th...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Planned for future release

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