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Please develop an AMCE Client for z/OS

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On z/OS this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
7 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

Please add ACME Client feature for automatic Certificate Generation

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the Z HMC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewal...
7 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
7 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Optional default NEWGEN or NOGEN for edit command SAVE

This applies to PDSE libraries with version 2 and number of generations bigger than 0.AS-IS :You create a new generation of a member every time you change and save it since SAVE NEWGEN is the default for current generation of the member.So if you ...
7 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Provide Rest API Interfaces for Health Checks

As a tester, it is useful for me to automate Health Checks remotely while running on the PC rather than having to use the current mechanism of invoking HZSPRINT. I think it would be also useful for general customer automation of Health Checks. We ...
7 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Enable access to input datasets for DSFS

Currently DSFS only supports output spool datasets. The addition of input spool datasets would be very helpful in providing a full user experience via the /dsfs/ sysout interface.
3 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Currently there's no check in the COPY command for ADRDSSU to see if the data sets are the RACF databases or not

Hi - Sometime ago, there was a problem when the data sets which contains the RACF primary and backup databases were moved using ADRDSSU. The data sets were protected as recommended by the books as well as they were assigned the PSU attribute. Howe...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Functionality already exists

Allow option for V TCPIP,,SYSPLEX,QUIESCE to persist across IPLs

We use the V TCPIP,,SYSPLEX,QUIESCE,TARGET command as part of a high availability strategy to isolate a problem LPAR and remove it from distribution. This works well, but the status is reset when TCPIP is restarted. We would like the ability to al...
21 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

add su logging to TSO 3.4 and TSO 3.17

With z/os 2.5 and PTF for OA62850 applied. we have SYSLOGD configured with the auth.* setting. If I go into OMVS and issue su with a privileged id it gets logged to the SYSLOGD However, if you use TSO OPTION 3.17 or 3.4 and use su I am able to swi...
21 days ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Submitted

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