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z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant import function

The z/OS AI Services workflow creates a flat file with the AT-TLS policy. We have no way of importing that file into z/OSMF NCA without entering all the information manually. We need the ability to import that file into z/OSMF NCA.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Avoid arbitrary MEMLIMIT=NOLIMIT assignments to REGION=0M jobs

Our IEFUSI->SMFLIMxx conversion was halted by an unpredictable design choice, which is: An implicit MEMLIMIT=NOLIMIT default when REGION=0M that *overrides* the explicit MEMLIMIT default in SMRPRMxx. This creates problems, such as: If a user...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Additional Information needed in VTOC Summary Display

In ISPF 3.4 one can Display the VTOC summary by using the Option "V".When using EAV volumes, it is not possible to evaluate the usage of the cylinder managed space distinct from the track managed space. there are values for- full volume size in tr...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Support for CCM algorithm in SystemSSL

For TLS1.3 there are 5 official supported ciphers: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_SHA256 And zOS SystemSSL does not support:TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_SH...
12 months ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer must support SMF 119(11)

Currently zOSMF Network Analyzer does only support analyzing the zERT Discovery Records from SMF 119(12). However with the introduction of zERT Policy enforcement there must be the option to analyze the SMF 119(11) records too. It makes not sense ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance z/OS IP Filtering so that rules can be defined to control access to ports that containers in zCX are listening on

Currently z/OS IP filtering only allows rules to be defined to control access to the TCPIP address that a zCX Instance uses. In a zCX instance, we can run a number of docker containers, each listening on different TCPIP Ports. Each of these contai...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

see if it is possible to fix hangs in apf and non apf tso and rexx scripts

TS014956323 Problem has been seen on both z/OS 2.4 and z/OS 2.5 and z/OS 3.1 and with either svc or linkage=system DEQ and takes from about 4 to 15 runs to recreate in batch rexx/uss.The recreation occurs with PGM=IKJEFT1A and we are executing an ...
3 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

Add connection pooling support to the web enablement toolkit

We would like to have a connection option that could be specified by using the HWTHSET service. This option would allow applications to enable connection pooling. We are already taking advantage of similar functionality on CICS where we are using ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Enable sftp to work with z/OS datasets and with Text data

With the introduction of DSFS it is now very possible for users to use sftp to access z/OS datasets however since sftp only supports binary transfers that precludes using sftp for source code or data. Enabling sftp to access z/OS datasets directly...
3 months ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 6 Under review

Tape volume output on UIM should contains DSNAME of dumped files

I use UIM exit to keep some information during a DFDSS DUMP function. During DUMP process, on UIM exit, i can have only information about the ddname and volser where the DUMP file created by dfdss resides. Now, with UIM exit there is no way to hav...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration