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Enhance AT-TLS filters to allow hostname specification for RemoteAddr

For AWS ELB (Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing), we need support destination host name (instead of IP only) for attaching an SNI header using TTLSRules AWS Load Balancer externally uses multiple IP addresses of the range assigned to the e...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

DFSMShsm for files Incremental File Recovery

We currently use DFSMShsm to back up entire ZFS data sets, as well as Spectrum Protect to back up individual files. When we need to quickly recover a ZFS to the most current state, we first recover the entire ZFS data set, followed by a selective ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Export/Import a VM fron one cluster to another cluster

Useful to move a workload from one cluster (maybe old) to another cluster (maybe new)
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Copy/Paste enablemnet for Remote console access KVM

Will nice to have the copy and past feature Remote console access KVM in CIC. Since this kind of console is used in case of problem/issue many time some solution can be found on manual or forum, and the solution commanda could be many and very lon...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Improvement to BPX SYNTAXCHECK (z/OS v2r5)

As requested in Case TS011449479, I suggest that BPX SYNTAXCHECK functionality include validation of path. Test on a 2.5 system where the leading '/' was missing from a mount path: EDIT SYS1.PARMLIB(BPXPRMDG) MOUNT FILESYSTEM('ZOS25.ETC.ZFS')TYPE(...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

USS shell should complain invalid hex numbers within a command

Copying from ASCII generates hex numbers which are not valid under EBCDIC. Using this hex numbers for example in a mv/cp command as filename makes it impossible to work with the filename, because the wrong hex numbers are included in the filename ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Future consideration

Option to ignore CRL expiry date in TR34 ICSF services

TR34 RKL ICSF services CSNDT34B and CSNDT34D uses CRL from CA for generating the TOKEN. One of the CA is sending a CRL valid for only one day, but confirmed that the EPP does not validate the CRL End date. Is it possible to provide an option to ig...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Support special characters [<>&"] in the password (PW) attribute of the HTTPPROXY element in the SCMPCLNT DD input stream

We are trying to use the "network delivery" function of SMP/E. At our site we need to go through a proxy server to access the Internet. The proxy server requires a "service account" userid and password to be authenticated using NTLM. However, the ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

System SSL and AT-TLS

Provide ability for AT-TLS defined Applications to maintain their Jobnames for use in GSKSRVR SSL Component Traces. Currently, all AT-TLS Applications fall under JOBNAME=TCPIP.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / SSL 4 Future consideration

We need to monitor the InfiniBand activity by CHPID via RMF

We just implemented some CHPIDs , COUPLE Links 1x between 2 sides 16Km long , into Production System but we can NOT see the individual rates of each CHPID . Via RMF III , SYSPLEX / CFSYS , we can see the Subchannel , Paths ,Sync and Async requests...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

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