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Buffering log of NIP console

If an IPL of a z/OS system gets stuck in the NIP phase there is only very limited information available on diagnosing the error. Usually it is only the 24 lines of output on the NIP console. If the messages describing the error roll out of the con...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Not under consideration

Create a zCX Container for Tivoli Warehouse Proxy and Tivoli Summarization and Pruning Agent

We currently run the Tivoli Enterprise Portal and we use the Data Warehouse. IBM has created a zCX container image for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. It would be great if we could also get containerized versions of other Tivoli monitoring agents - ...
8 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

take advantage of SDB when allocating a dataset using BPXBATCH

While allocating a dataset using BPXBATCH Program, FORCE SDB only has an affect if the data set is not opened between the allocation and un allocation. The only program I can think of that does that is IEFBR14. But when we are using BPXBATCH, file...
8 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

LDAP Server Definitions - Different Ports and SSL for Primary and Backup

With the current configuration options I'm able to define two hosts (primary and backup) however I'm only able to define a single port which must then match for both hosts. I need the option/flexibility to assign different settings for each host l...
15 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Built-in z/OS Unix package manager

z/OS Unix is slowly becoming more widely used and relevant with technologies like Python, GO, Zowe Explorer, Zowe Desktop and so on. Installs via pax are becoming more common and a new generation of systems programmers are coming in that need to i...
4 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST TSO API.

We use the command "zowe zos-tso issue command "exec somerexx"" extensively, to reuse some of our existing REXX on Z. This causes problems sometimes, when a legacy REXX calls another legacy REXX that calls another ..., and somewhere a panel pops u...
9 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

LDAP Server Definitions - Allow testing and validation

With the current option is only possible to define the Primary and Backup hosts with a port and separate Bind DN. It would be great to offer the function to test the connection (with a ping for non-SSL and a handshake for SSL connections) and vali...
9 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / General 5 Not under consideration

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