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z/OS

Allow for inspection of Local PIs before Sysplex PI

Currently WLM looks for candidate receivers by first examining all the sysplex PIs at a given importance level before moving onto the local PIs at that importance level. But today’s sysplexes tend to be much more heterogenous than originally envis...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM Not under consideration

Support Port Mapping from Sysplex Distributor Standard Ports to Kubernetes NodePort Services

Hello IBM, We are running Openshift Cntainer Platform on z/OS and use Sysplex Distributor for load balancing the traffic between worker nodes. Our Container Team is requesting an enhancement to allow SD to receive inbound traffic on standard ports...
6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server Not under consideration

Warning message when set resource audit when its class is not in audit mode

In order to warn to security administrators to know that this resource audit will not be recorded, because the racf class which it belongs, is not in setropts audit.
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Allow multiple validation criteria for String type Variables (Type and Length at a time)

1) Problem Statement (Current Limitation)Today, z/OSMF variable validation for String type supports either: Type-based validation (Validators like DSNAME, DSQUAL,ALPHA etc.), orLength-based validation (minLength, maxLength), …but not both simultan...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

OAM should be fully initialized before issuing CBR3660A

In a disaster recovery test scenario when tape resources is less compared to the production environment, CBR3660A indicates threshold is breached, System Automation cannot use CBR3660A because it is issued before OAM is fully initialized.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Not under consideration

Support for multiple DNS, IP and EMAIL fields in RACDCERT GENCERT

Why is it useful? This is not just useful—it is absolutely essential for DB2 data sharing environments that run secure JDBC connections with the following settings: enableSysplexWLB=TRUE sslConnection=TRUE sslClientHostnameValidation=TRUE (default...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Support for multiple DNS, IP and EMAIL fields in RACDCERT GENCERT

Why is it useful? This is not just useful—it is absolutely essential for DB2 data sharing environments that run secure JDBC connections with the following settings: enableSysplexWLB=TRUE sslConnection=TRUE sslClientHostnameValidation=TRUE (default...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

omvs should mount zfs in parallel at startup

I have two systems I IPLed system A ....and mounted some ZFS's. I shut this down ( Shutdown abended)I started my old system - which uses the same ZFS. It mounts each ZFS ... waits for 65 seconds, then mounts the next.. waits 65 seconds. then the n...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) Not under consideration

LE library routines stack storage should not be initializzed

We are using LE runtime option: STORAGE(00,NONE,00,0) We are not able to change this. This imposes a huge overhead in the LE library routines like the jsonGetValue(). As these routines do not rely on LE initialization of stack storage option, we w...
8 months ago in z/OS / LE Not under consideration

List keyrings associated with all users

Currently, RACF has limitation to only be able to list keyrings or certificates based on single user ID or Certauth or SITE. Why its useful? Listing all keyrings or certificates will provide at glance if any keyrings are empty or have keyrings wit...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

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