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In z/OS the client needs a possibility to create keytab files with the option for custom salts to be used with WAS or other Components

Traditionally the keytab utility was shipped with the IBM Java SDK until Java 8 but misses the functionality to use a custom SALT. From Java 11 on, it was not further shipped. IBM z/OS offers a keytab utility but with very limited support to use a...
7 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

Allow LDAP servers in a sysplex to share an activity log file

LDAP sysplex setups recommend that all servers in the sysplex share the same configuration file. This cannot be done if activity logging is in use because the LDAP server cannot handle file management during the rollover period. The only way to us...
4 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant REST API

We get very often requirements to change the IPSec policy to add/remove IP addresses to the different address groups for IPSec. This is very time consuming as sometimes 10 addresses have to be added, sometime 5 have to be removed and so on. Also, ...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Show the correct SCRATCH volume count in ISMF and DFSMSrmm

Today we have a problem to show the SCRATCH volume count in the ISMF panel, because it does not matched the real available scratch volume count in the IBM VTS library manager data base. The problem is the "Delete Expired Volume Data setting". Is t...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

RMF I/O new panel with RATE/response time for ASYN SYNC(zhyperl) CSR (Consistent Read Secondary)

We currently get the I/O response time and and I/O rate by running a RMF report (summary) as follow : The JCL //RMFPP EXEC PGM=ERBRMFPP,REGION=0M //MFPINPUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYTMVS.$SJ08.W9AS3JC.SMF.TOUT.D240128.TKS1 //PPSUM001 DD SYSOUT=* //PPSUM0...
3 months ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration
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TSO/E: Implement Pipes Facility

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1202104946User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE011455Title: TSO/E: Implement Pipes FacilitySubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Will...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 19 Future consideration

ISPF Edit should be site configurable to prevent the Editing of a non-zero PDSE member generation.

Editing a non-zero (non-base) PDSE member generation is asking for trouble for many reasons, the least of which is that non-zero generations are not able to be accessed via JCL or dynamic allocation. After much discussion on PDSEGEN the decision a...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

zCX/Openshift Multi-Architectur Support with VMWare & zCX

With OpenShift 4.14, OpenShift supports Multi-Architectur setup with the Control Nodes on x86 and e.g. Worker Nodes on s390x (zCX). Unfortunately, VMWare is a not supported plattform. Without that support, we'll never get the chance to go to produ...
6 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Reduce the increase of number of CICS getmains after LE z/OS 2.4 and new parameter CEENXSTG

After the migration to z/OS 2.4 the number of CICS getmains increased by 40 percent.This tremendous increase is caused by the introduction of the new Language Environment parameter CEENXSTG.CEENXSTG is a parameter that indicates whether non-execut...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Allow LDAP server admins to be able to customize SQL queries for LDAP operations.

Due to the wide range of SQL functionality and DB2 database implementations it's possible that certain SQL queries generated by the LDAP server are not optimized for some DB2 databases, a mechanism to allow LDAP admins to customize queries can gre...
4 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

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