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    PKI Services -RFC 8555 - Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

    PKI services actually implements the SCEP and EST protocol to Enroll Certificates of CISCO Routers. The Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol is a communications protocol for automating interactions between certificate autho...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Future consideration

    ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - signature failure

    When using RECSIGN and ARECSIGN to sign the records and validate them afterwards and there is an error, it is not clear which of the two signatures failed. However, this is the essential/crucial point of the dual signature. I have to know if the c...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

    need CEEOPT64 for amode64 environments

    allow applications that have amode31 and amode64 environments to be able to read options specific to their environment. For example existing CEEOPTS be used by amode24/31 applications and CEEOPT64 be processed by amode64 environment
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

    Change HSM Filemode Messages to something different from ARCxxxx to differentiate automation procedures from HSM Classic.

    When HSM Classic and Filemode are running as separate tasks and message driven automation is used for things like CDS backups and archiving PDAs and LOGs, compex code is needed to differentiate between the two due to the fact the messages from bot...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

    have z/OSMF exploit shared libraries - todayit is just enabled

    The default for Java shared library support is to store the information in memory. This means the first time a Java program is started it loads the libraries, and saves the information in memory. The second time the Java program is started it can ...
    12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

    Save the selection of the “Retain Last Selection” option after leaving the SDSF Panel

    With z/OS 3.1 a new option "Retain last selection" for the SDSF confirmation of action characters was introduced. The Retain last selection option can be used to default the action character confirmation with the last used value for the duration t...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

    Ways needed to change single options of IEAOPT

    We need a way to set single options out of the scope of IEAOPTxx member without overwriting all the other options. There should either be a command "SETOPT option=value" that only changes the specified option. Or "SET OPT=xx" should only change th...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Future consideration

    z/OS IPL simulation

    It should be very valuable to test an upcoming IPL in case of z/OS upgrade or other system parameter change. The simulation could consist of various checks for example ipl & catalog volume address verification, IPLPARM LOADxy syntax check, var...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

    ACS Read only variable required for RECFM

    We are converting our sequential data to extended format in preparation for pervasive encryption. We use the zbna software to identify files unsuitable for EF, due to utilising EXCP. We have identified a lot of files with a RECFM of FS (mostly SAS...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

    zERT Network Analyzer - Timezone adjustment with date/time for import

    While loading data into zERT the start and end time reported in the 'Data Management History' tab is not the local or system time. It seems to be UTC and this cannot be changed via the Settings. As I would like to see those times in the local time...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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