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zERT - Support Filtering zCX traffic

A zERT rule must be able to manage and handle traffic targeting a docker container within zCX to align enforcement of used ciphers. zERT offers the great capabilities to manage which ciphers can be used but a running zCX remains being a black box ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CFRM policy editor: support for comments

CFRM policy editor does not support comments. When importing the CFRM policy from a dataset, current available comments in the JCL of the CFRM policy are lost.It would mean that we can't document anything if using the zOSMF CFRM policy editor. ZOS...
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

PAV/HyperPAV alias Support

Base devices between subchannel sets, aliases associated with and in the same real subchannel set in the active configuration allows these devices to then be referenced by 4-digit RDEV numbers in various commands which only affect active configura...
2 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Middleware recovery Boost parameters options

Dear Madam/Sir We would like to have the feasibility to change the way that is divided the daily interval of 30minutes of Recovery Boost. It should be useful to have the possibility of customization of thefollowing Middleware Recovery boost settin...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Workflows. Straight the skew of archived workflows

The way of working with archived workflows should be refactored. If a user archives a workflows it is dependent on that user if it will be cleaned up or stays there forever. If the underlaying zFS runs full it is very hard for a system administrat...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Support LogFilter for ibm-filterSubject

Currently, we can set a logfilter for an IP-Adress by using / F ldapuxsl, LOG FILTER,(IBM-FILTERIP=1.2.3.4) In the ACL documentation we find additional filters that can be set for ACLs, for example ibm-filterSubject. Having the Subject filter also...
4 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

In the LSPACE macro given the option switch off SVCDUMPs for VTOC errors

Change LSPACE to allow the option to suppress SVCDUMPs for VTOC errors
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

Additional Verifications for some HMC operations.

Normally, Z HMC infrastructure requires password verification when the performed operation is disruptive. For example if you are deactivating a running LPAR, the system warns you well and says that this is a disruptive operation and asks for your ...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR should be of type Error

In my opinion the message IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR ... should be of type error. A job should end with RC 8 and not 4, because it is an error and not an information the utility IFASMFDL gives. So please change it to IFA849E and change the behavior...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

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