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    Enhance CDA for Signed Payload and Improve Tracing

    The Provider files do not currently have the parms needed to support SIGNED Payload, currently it's only support "UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD" to use a signed payload we need to enhance CDA. Currently there is no tracing until the TOOLKIT is called as that i...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

    Mainframe utility to access S3 for store and retrieval

    With increased use of the cloud we are facing a need to have S3 interface available on z/OS for transferring data between z/OS and the cloud.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Delivered

    Z/OS RMM RM(EXPDT) Catalog Control function for expdt=99000.

    Right now with retention method expdt if a the user uses expdt=99000 in their jcl the expiration date is set to 12/31/1999. With whilecatalog(on) for a management class we want to use for catalog control, if all the datasets on the tape(s) are unc...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 4 Delivered

    Add an additional parameter for CBRUXSAE (OAM Security exit) to get the Db2 SSID or name of OAM system

    Currently, we've the requirement to setup a Multiple-OAM Environment. This have to be done for some application restore tests. Currently, our OAM Security exit checks RACF for the access rights to the collections (the RACF ressources are the colle...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Delivered

    Update SYSLOGD to support sending data via TCP

    We have a requirement to send SYSLOGD data to another server but we need to send it via TCP and use ATTLS to encrypt the data. The current implementation only allows for sending via UDP and doesn't allow for a different port specification.
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

    Extend isfjcall to call SDSF functions with parameters

    Several SDSF functions allow the user to specify parameters on invocation, for example "CK E", "RM ALL", "DEV ACT". To the contrary, isfjcall runners always return all rows, often don't honor the function's default parameter (like for RM it is "RM...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

    Enhance CFRM Policy Editor to allow export of CFRM policy to CSV-format file

    The z/OSMF CFRM Policy Editor is a major step forward in making it easier to view and change the contents of CFRM policies. However, there are situations where it would be valuable to be able to have the policy information in a spreadsheet-friendl...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

    Optional default NEWGEN or NOGEN for edit command SAVE

    This applies to PDSE libraries with version 2 and number of generations bigger than 0.AS-IS :You create a new generation of a member every time you change and save it since SAVE NEWGEN is the default for current generation of the member.So if you ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

    Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA

    When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

    RMM Retention Method Expdt Abend handling

    For Tapes that are using retention method VRSEL there is an abend handling routine that is used when a job abends and the dataset and tapes are cleaned up prior to the rerun of the job. However with tapes using retention method EXPDT there is no s...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

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