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z/OS

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EF-OpenPGP enhanchement for z/OS <=> LUW

ENCRYPT and DECRYPT of files and CodePage/encoding and zip/unzip use too much CPU and MEMORY for small and medium size files. The JCL need many steps to handle the data. Usually ASCII data is shipped as encrypted to z/OS, and must then be transfor...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

TCPIP profile needs better handling for deprecated parms / out of order parms

Hi IBM, This past weekend, we had the upgrade on our production systems AMVS , where we moved from 2.1 to 2.2,post the IPL we had TCPIP that came up without IPSEC as we had a degraded parm in the IPCONFIG block. The problem was that a deprecated k...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Syslog Daemon

Syslog daemon doesn't support multi-line for -N destination rule.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Attaching 64 bit executable and passing parameters and env variables

In our 32 bit application we used an ATTACH macro to create a process and:- share subpools 0 and 1 (used macro paramaters SZERO=YES,SHSPV=1)- pass a list of arguments- pass a list of env variables However when we started attaching 64 bit executabl...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

OPEN ACB in LUNS/LUNR sysplex fail doa CDRSC cleanup not yet completed

The LU was connected to TN3270AT on PRDB using client IP address 192.168.20.229 (Telnet proxy) when it connected at the telnet server on PRDA using client IP address 192.168.20.228 49089 which kicked off TAKEOVER processing. Telnet server on PRDB ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

'Search' Option in zosmf

We are looking for options to search for a particular string in the zosmf rules. For example, if we need to find which rules are coded with a specific IP address , zosmf should have some options like searching this specific string and display all ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Warning message should be produced if a PAGENT Policy is deleted during a dynamic update

We are requesting that there be a warning/error message when a dynamic update of the PAGENT process removes the file reference to a policy such as TTLS, IDS, or IPSEC.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for Message EZD1776I

We had an issue recently where we had a connection where we kept getting the following message. EZD1776I IKE version 1.0 security association 9 for tunnel K3789 deletedWithout debug turned up I do not have an idea on what drove this tunnel to dele...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

TCPIP version of the VTAM command 'D NET,MODELS,APPL='

The recent ESP announced an enhancement in the use of wildcards on port and portrange statements coming in z/OS V2R3.Increasing the complexity of selection can lead to errors that i think could be avoided if there were a TCPIP display command that...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Cleanup of PAGENT USS files upon initialization

Upon initialization PAGENT apparently checks for /tmp/pagent.pid from a previous run. If found, it attempts to reuse rather than delete/define. If perms are not compatable with CS_CRIT setting, PAGENT refuses to init. PAGENT should delete/define a...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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