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Support proxy servers for CDA and GDK

A proxy server allows a site to funnel access through while protecting the z/OS (real origin) address. Some sites disallow direct access from the mainframe to public cloud providers. This can be done to improve security and privacy of the mainfram...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Deploy an option to suppress warning messages in HCD.

There are warning messages that come out in HCD that are known to be ok, but still spill out a lot of warning messages that are additional things to review. It would be great to have the ability to suppress warning messages in an IODF and those be...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

In the default z/OS distribution predefine empty mount point /dsfs

With the default SMP/E root filesystem please deliver it with a /dsfs mount point so that it is there and won't be lost with maintenance.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 5 Functionality already exists

z/OSMF workflow engine to provide access to zOSMF JWT/LTPA token

When creating a zOSMF workflow step that invokes an External RESTapi, it would be useful to have access to the current z/OSMF user's JWT token in order to use the bearer token in an API call for other z/OS services. APIs that go through Zowe's API...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance IFASMFDP to use efficient buffering to significantly reduce job elapsed time

All users would benefit in their SMF daily jobstreams by being able to quickly and efficiently process the Hundreds of Millions of records in a short time span.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF export/import of configuration definitions

We have more than one z/OSMF running in more then one sysplex. We would like to export and import some of the configured functions from one z/OSMF to the other. For example - z/OS Operator Consoles- Links- FTP Servers- etc Same as for Network Conf...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF ACTIVATION involving thousands of HW changes

XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF activation On an z/OS image that did NOT issue the HW ACTIVATE-Customer observed that CPU usage for all MASTER address spaces was more than 10 CPs for the RMF Mon 3 interval just before the IOS502I message. Add...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Planned for future release

The access control check for services, keys or cryptoz resources should be postponed until after the security product has initialized.

We've changed our ICSF startup to an 'early startup' by setting system parameters ICSFPROC=ICSF and ICSF=xx. We're now noticing the following messages during startup that weren't there before : CSFM012I NO ACCESS CONTROL AVAILABLE FOR CRYPTOZ RESO...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Provide support in RACF to add and list extended key usage (EKU)

Currently RACF does not allow to add extended key usage in a certificate. It also can not list. However working with TLS 1.3, it is necessary to have clientAuth in extended key usage. It is not desired to use old Java keytool or openssl to g...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide a DISPLAY PROCLIB command similar to D PARMLIB

Please provide DISPLAY PROCLIB|STCJOBS command similar to the DISPLAY PARMLIB command.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Future consideration

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