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zERT - Passphrase Support

zERT must support Passphrase for authentication and not only 8 char passwords.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

zERT - unneccessary Migration trouble 2.3 to 2.4 to 2.5

We were on z/OS 2.3 and have zERT Table Version 1.3.0 in use.After Migration to z/OS 2.4 the zERT-Plugin in z/OSMF tells wrong schema version.So i tried to run Migration Script IZUZNADG, which creates the new statements for getting correct DDL.But...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

HMC LDAP authentication should recognize RACF GROUP to determine user Authority

Currently the Z HMC supports RACF LDAP for local user authentication but the user must be locally defined. The users authority is also determined by locally defined definitions. The HMC code needs to be updated so RACF GROUPS can be defined for HM...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

JES2 EMAIL DELIVERY SERVICES Customization

Provide ability to customize subject line when using JES2 EMAIL DELIVERY Services. Today we have to open the email to associate a jobname job number, system and rc of the job which is not convenient.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

HWTHCONN - Creation of a Customized Connect Timeout option

Developers building new applications using z/OS HTTP/HTTPS callable services has no way to set a customizable connect timeout when calling HWTHCONN. So, when a server isn't available, the call is kept blocked until it finally timed out after 75 se...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 3 Delivered

Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA

When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Download and upload datasets and dataset members with non-alphanumeric, non-national special characters

This request is similar to RFE ID 142345 - Download and upload datasets and dataset members with names in different encodings than IBM-1047 using REST API. Product: Zowe CLI, Zowe Explorer, Postman Actor: User attempting to download or modify a da...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

RMM shall keep Vol/Dataset information for all volumes, till TS77* Expire-Hold is reached

TS77* LWorm data set and volume information are cleared when scratch. This information is very important when volumes are deleted by accident.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Delivered

Support for GA2 to GA1 driver downgrade option

While planing to upgrade z14 GA1 to GA2 driver, the customer asks IBM to prepare guaranteed contingency revert plan in the case of GA2 driver causes the customer's production system failure. Unlike MCL apply, GA2 driver upgrade includs lots of new...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Delivered

OMVS GREP should support z/OS datasets

Many OMVS commands support accessing z/OS datasets using the "//'dataset.name'" but grep is not one of them. With OMVS scripting becoming more pervasive and with the need to access z/OS datasets still a requirement, this is important.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Delivered

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