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Please change behavior of IDCAMS utilitty ALTER commands

If IDCAMS ALTER detect that backpointer to catalog points is not user intended one.then ALTER issue some WARNING or INFORMATION message. <User case> <<Background>>User used IDCAMS DELETE to delete VSAM but got below message: IDC3...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Increase PKI Services ?Requestor Field' limitation

To increase PKI ‘Requestor Field' limitation to accept more than 32 characters (email address)
over 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Not under consideration

SORT/ICETOOL statements for variable length records

Allow the coding of SORT / ICETOOL statements without having to add +4 to every position to account for the variable length RDW. This would require a new SORT option (perhaps VLRDW) to allow for both old and new method. Benefit: Easier to both cod...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under consideration

Add support to Encryption Facility OpenPGP for OpenPGP certificates with public keys to be stored in RACF

Support better security than keys stored in USS. We want to keep our public and private keys in our Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)/RACF. Encryption Facility provides for writing OpenPGP public keys to a USS for or to JAVA keys stores. It does ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF Password History and RACF LDAP Password reset interface

We would like the ability for RACF to check the Password History when the password is being reset through the LDAP interface. Based on feedback from RACF support (see PMR) they use a ALTUSER command which currently does not check the password hist...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

zOSMF RENAME BACKSTORE FUNCTION

We need a way to rename a backing store from the z/OSMF configuration menu
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Request IP address override for FTP server response to PASV

We are unable to support our customers who connect through our proxy server over the internet when we turn on at/tls because at/tls does not support 3-way communications. This feature is a common feature of my Windows FTP server partners. This fea...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z14 SNMP MIB enhancement add mainframe SN, FRU location and FRU PN included,

For some reason, the mainland mainframe clients DO NOT enable the option of call home, the response time of 7*24 standby servicedepends on the completeness of SNMP message to some extent, which is critical to keep the customer satisfaction and ser...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Allow disposition to be specified on fopen

DISP=SHR cannot be set when fopening a file in write mode. In read mode it defaults to DISP=SHR. If the file is a PDS(E) member, this locks out the whole PDS(E) so that no-one can browse the other members. If you use a DD Card, then you can specif...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Add support for MTU size in OSPF DD packets as per RFC 2328

Add the MTU size to OSPF Database Description packets in accordance with RFC 2328
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration