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Enhance Kerberos/SKRBKDC limit to more than 2048 sockets

Currently, there is a hard coded limit of 2048 for the number of parallel open sockets for Kerberos / SKRBKDC (see Msg: EUVF04031E Limit of 2048 sockets exceeded). We're using Kerberos authentication for nearly all of our business transactions to ...
3 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

Separate “Local Lock Suspension Time” from “zIIP on CP Time”

We have been in the process of activating and evaluating SMT-2 across several LPARs. As part of our analysis and IBM’s analysis (TS015958511), we were made aware that "Local Lock Suspension Time”, which is not eligible to run on a CP, is always a ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Under review
255 VOTE

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...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 20 Not under consideration

zERT Network Analyzer - Timezone adjustment with date/time for import

While loading data into zERT the start and end time reported in the 'Data Management History' tab is not the local or system time. It seems to be UTC and this cannot be changed via the Settings. As I would like to see those times in the local time...
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

SMP/E Root CA certificate change request

Current IBM SMP/E Root certificate, DigiCert Global Root CA, is using weak SHA1 algorithm. We are working on replacing all certificates using SHA1 with much more secure SHA256. Many vendors already switched their SMP/E client certificates to use ...
9 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

Create a report to show the unused defaults table entries

If a customer has a large number of VRS definitions he can use the VRSEL report to identify "Unused VRS Definitions" at the end of the report. I have successfully converted a customer with approximate 13.0000 RDS definitions to approximate 13.000 ...
17 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Submitted

Autobackup for HSM USS files

This functionality to allow the USS files under a file system to be automatically backed when the autobackup for the SMS management class is setup.
17 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Submitted

Have "LU userid NORACF OMVS" show all OMVS fields

Unlike all other fields, the MEMLIMIT and SHMEMMAX fields are not shown unless an explicit value is set. This inconsistent behavior is confusing, and makes that you only learn about their existence when you stumble upon their definition in the docs.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

SDSF - update CFS panel in column Encrypt

While the SDSF 'CFS' panel provides a great overview for all details of the structure including encryption details, it would be great if the panel can incorporate the feasibility of encryption or not by structure type. By design, structures from t...
4 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance D OMVS command to show all active PARMLIB members used

At IPL time a d omvs command will display all the BPXPRMxx members used as expected. But if a t omvs=xx is issued later then the d omvs command will only report on that one BPXPRMxx and *not* the prior members which is misleading and incorrect as ...
4 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration