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add a TN3270 configuration option to disable the check for Server name & Certificate name to match

Configurable Option to disable Verify Certificate We have encountered a situation with our TKEs at RBC. We had LPAR site certificates included in the TN3270 ring before and removed thus only TN3270 user certificate is in the keyring. More specific...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Media manager interfaces should provide feedback as to whether writes are actually using zHyperWrite or not

The media manager interfaces don't give enough feedback about whether zHyperWrite is working or not. They only tell a caller that a data-set is zHyperWrite enabled, or not, during initial connect to that data-set. zHyperWrite state can easily chan...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Media Manager 1 Future consideration

Additional information is needed when changeing the customer contact information

It would be good to have some kind of message that if adding or changing the contact information on the HMC/SE, it must have a match with a contact in the IBM customers portal. The problem is that customers are possibly not aware that the date on ...
12 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

Usage of the "Common Plattform Enumeration" (CPE) for IBM Products in the "IBM Z an LinuxOne Security Portal" within Resource link

Given that vulnerability and patch management is not only a concern of the z ecosystem in an organization, the software to manage vulnerability data should be able to handle sources and vulnerabilities for multiple platforms. Therefore a standardi...
12 months ago in z/OS / General 5 Not under consideration

SYSLOGD zIIP eligable

Since z/OS V3R1 backported to V2R5 (PH47666), SYSLOGD provides the possibility to send logs to remote systems. This open's a whole new world, like connecting systems to Splunk in a very easy way. In times of every MIPS count, this new possibilitie...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.

I'm primarily interested in the openssh, specifically ssh-keygen, but all shell/utilities need to be code page tag aware. This is extremely important as some ported tools will create files as ISO8859-1 causing those files to be unusable by some of...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 4 Functionality already exists

make bcpii V1 HWI_RESERVEID information visible in V2 API

W we had a problem during a DR test where we were not able to do a CBU (via EMC GDDR software which uses BCPii) because someone had left a panel open. IBM says that HWI_RESERVEID is in the old (version 1) of BCPii would have let us know that his w...
26 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

zopen utilities as part of standard USS

Make the zopen utilties part of BCP. This way everybody will have it 'on their system' My suggestion is to put all 'that cool stuff' in /zopen There's nothing more to it to be honest ;) You might wanna start with a POC-trial-run in the next ADCD d...
3 months ago in z/OS / General 0 Under review