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Provide REST API for Software Update Plugin

Please provide a REST API that will provide subset of functionality for performing automated updates.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Expand RACF resource OPERCMDS MVS.VARY.WLM to improve protection of WLM application-environments

V WLM,APPLENV=<name>,refresh|quiesce|resume command can be protected by OPERCMDS MVS.VARY.WLM resource. If a userID has this resource permitted, he can issue the "v wlm,applenv..." commands to every application-environment with any operation...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

Prevent the user to activate all RACF cdt classes trying to list the active options

The way RACF is designed today, it doesn't allow an user to filter sort of options it has in effect. For example, if I want to list only the active classes, there isn't a filter for that suggesting I should use SETROPTS LIST to list everything. Th...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

data collection at DS8000 and RMF Reporting with Ethernet Throughput (in/out) with TCT (transparent Cloud Tiering)

We are using TCT Ethernet Activities not externalized by DS8000 Reporting of Ethernet transfer (in/out) at DS8000 Ethernet-Ports is required to monitor and to plan infrastructure
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

HMC Support for Secure SMTP and SMTP Authentication

We have setup e-mail alerts within the HMC that are critical to the operation of our systems. We have a requirement internally to remove insecure SMTP and use Secure SMTP with Authentication. Currently, the HMC does not support Secure SMTP (TLS) o...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 11 Planned for future release

Request to auto synch the time across all crypto adapters with the system time.

Each IBM 4768 (and other 476x series) cryptographic coprocessors maintains its own internal clock to provide timestamped logging for PCI-HSM compliance. The clock value is set for each card individually by an operator using the TKE "Set Clock" fun...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 Future consideration

Add better support to ISPF for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Add invoked omvs command to 3.17 command results display

Under ISPF 3.17 one can, if enabled, issue OMVS commands and have the results appear in ISPF Browse or View. It would be very helpful to add to the display the full command that was issued. This is especially helpful if the results are printed/cop...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

VTAM Connection Network Pending PU Processing

When a Connection Network PU goes into a pending state during connection establishment, VTAM does not perform any INOP Processing as it does for native Enterprise Extender connections. The pending PU remains in the pending state for an indefinite ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RMF subtype to capture resource usage metrics for zCX runtime and zCX containers

Current zCX workloads can only be measured and controlled by WLM from z/OS perspective. It does not have correlated data points between GP/zIIP utilization going thru container's utilization within zCX. It would be very helpful to understand how m...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration