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OAEP support for RSA PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV

Require CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to support OAEP padding. Currently only the older format padding 1.5 is supported
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

CEC degradation is not a major alert

When there is a CEC refrigeration problem, the CEC protects itself reducing processor speed to decrease power consumption and heat generation. The hardware alert generated is not considered a critical condition by IBM service and is not tacked int...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Support for VIEW of the ISPF log

In dialog test, panel ISPYXD1 currently supports an option 5, "Browse ISPF log". But browse is not as versatile as View. When using the View service, the dialog developer can use exclude and find commands to filter which lines are displayed, makin...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Ability to group members of PDS for doing one common action

Currently, ISPF does not offer an option to mark the group of members and then choose the action for the selected members on such panels as ISRUDA1 (Option 3.1) and ISRUDSM (Option 3.4 and then select a PDS). It would be very handy to have the sel...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

Granularity for IDS policy

The PMR 94259082000 was opened when it was discovered that enabling IDS caused reporting of malformed packets that were discarded. While the policy was only set to report only mode, the message IDs that we were seeing in the logs were related to w...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Create an easy interface to send commands from MVS RACF to z/VM RACF

I would like a handy interface to help keep z/VM RACF databases in sync with my z/OS RACF databases. My initial thought was why not just have z/VM RACF support RRSF? A conversation with Bruce Wells helped me understand why that would be easier sai...
about 8 years ago in z/VM 2 Functionality already exists

Add Support for RFC 3522 - Unnecessary Loss Recovery

The Eifel detection algorithm (RFC 3522) allows a TCP sender to detect a posteriori whether it has entered loss recovery unnecessarily.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Asking about unsupported DSM for device optimizer Exinda

System: Optimizer ExindaActor: Device uses advanced algorithms and data analysis to optimize the network.Description: Our team is going to integrate this device's log to Qradar. However, at present, this brand is not supported in a Qradar DSM docu...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance 119 subytype 70 and 3 to include jobname information

I would like to see a field added to the 119 subtype 70 and 3 SMF records so that the jobname can be captured. Jobname information is critical when remediating unencrypted FTP's for PCI.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Improve CSM Administrative Usability (settings, monitoring and tuning)

This requirement describes the need to improve various usability aspects of managing z/OS CS CSM storage, in terms of CSM settings, monitoring and tuning. Setting the appropriate values for CSM settings (vs. using system defaults) for a z/OS syste...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration