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PKI Services -RFC 8555 - Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

PKI services actually implements the SCEP and EST protocol to Enroll Certificates of CISCO Routers. The Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol is a communications protocol for automating interactions between certificate autho...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Future consideration

Include REVOKE in FACILITY password reset authorities

Enhance the authority associated with FACILITY resource IRR.PASSWORD.RESET and those prefixed IRR.PWRESET to allow users to REVOKE an ID within the existing scope of authority of these resources. These FACILITY resources allow users to RESUME and ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under 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 ...
4 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

Run RACF health checks only once per shared RACF database

Either RACF healthcheck routines should sort out, if the systems of the sysplex share the same RACF database, or there should be grouping parameter that can be specified for the check to "help" the routine to sort that out.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under 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...
4 months ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 6 Under review

update IEF033I message to include ZIIP usage time

Hello IBM, can I please for a change to message IEF033I as follows to allow the ZIIP time to be shown. This would be a small however important improvement scanning out batch jobs for ZIIP consumption. IEF033I JOB/QR2DAP49/STOP 2024008.0622 CPU: 1 ...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

zERT Network Analyzer improvements needed

In order for the zert tool to be useful, from a db2 perspective, we need the following: - A means to schedule loads so that someone does not manually have to log in to the tool and tell it to load the latest dataset of smf data. A batch job we cou...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

OAM access from C/C++

Similar to sample programs like CBROSR* we need a C/C++ interface program for accessing OAM.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

provide Display SHCDS command with results that go to SYSLOG for automation.

SHCDS commands work both in batch and in the TSO/E foreground, but the output isn't available in SYSLOG. Automation around SMSVSAM/RLS issues would be easier if we could drive standard z/os commands such as /D SHCDS xxx and have output go to SYSLOG.
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 4 Future consideration

Add Support for Fast Replication / Flash Copy for backup of the RACF Database

Provide a method to backup the RACF Database that takes advantage of the current utilities that perform Fast Replication/Flash Copies where the backups are more instantaneous.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 8 Future consideration

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