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Encryption Facility should follow RFC 9580 regarding default algorithms lists. DES3 and SHA1 should not be included as they are now deprecated.

We are using Encryption Factify for z/OS V1.2 in conjunction with RACF to generate X509 Certificates and exporting the corresponding public keys. Our business partner is unable to use these public keys because they contain non-compliant algorithms...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Submitted

LP recommendations related messages showing on both observed and managed systems

Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM, when using the option of sending recommendations to the observed system’s CFZCIM, customers could benefit from another message, which confirms this was written to CPOSERV’s Joblog too. ...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Management capabilities for CPM messages

Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Clients use other products to control Defined Capacities, which produce separate WTO’s when actions are taken, making the CPM messages to be superfluous, needlessly filling the CPOSERV’s Joblog...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Support Intrdr File Encoding header for all Submit Jobs requests

The z/OSMF API for submitting jobs supports a “X-IBM-Intrdr-File-Encoding” header, which has the following limitation:> This header is effective only when the JCL for the job to be submitted is included in the HTTP request body. This header is ...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

New informational messages with options of being enabled/disabled

Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Extending the generated CPM informational messages, and allowing them to be dynamically switchable in a similar fashion as via the “Planner.ExplanatoryActivationMessage” parm, and the CPO4444I ...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Improve CPM LP handling to follow PR/SM best practices

Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM the current logic regarding “LP adds” and “LP removes” is unbalanced, and tends towards allowing systems to run with over-configured online LP counts. If PR/SM treats “LP’s Parked by Hip...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Enhance NFS so that I can NFS Mount Striped and large datasets that span multiple volumes

Currently NFS on z/OS does not support NFS Mounting Striped or large datasets that span multiple volumes on z/OS
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 0 Submitted

Port the community Ansible (open-source Ansible) to z/OS

Ansible offers a range of benefits for IT automation: - Simplicity and Ease of Use - Agentless Architecture - Built on Python - Configuration Management - Application Deployment - Orchestration - Community Support (Ansible Galaxy) - Idempotence Be...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

allow provide separate TTLSGroupAction for each rule while generating TLS policy using Network Configuration Assistant

Automatically generate unique TTLSGroupActionRef values per AT-TLS rule.Or allow users to enable this behavior via a configuration toggle or policy setting.This option would:Improve diagnostic granularity in NETSTAT TTLS and related tooling.Suppor...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Skulker file latch across systems in a sysplex for shared file systems

Hello developement team, in case TS020247393 you have clarified actual behaviour of skulker, which is just doing file latching per system. It would be useful in a sysplex environment to enhance this latching across all systems in the plex in order...
2 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Submitted