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ATTLS, like IPSEC, should offload encryption to ziip engines

IPSEC has offloaded the encryption processing to ziip processors, and ATTLS should do the same.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) Header in z/OS

The Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) IPv6 Destination Options (DO) Header is defined in : http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ippm-6man-pdm-option/ (This draft has been adopted by the IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Working Group of ...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Create new "last login timestamp" attribute in LDAP for entries

RACF provides an attribute, LAST-ACCESS, which is mapped to racfLastAccess in SDBM which can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.glpa200/tivrff.htm#racfcf This searchable attribute returns th...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Using GCP Workload Identity Federation in DFSMS Cloud Data Access

We've had discussions, about the security, with our internal Cloud Core team and they're suggesting to use GCP Workload Identity Federation instead of GCP service account json file and it's going to improve the security issues significantly.
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

DSFS CreateParm should NOT require a previous allocation under secondary qualifiers

When using the dsadm createparm the -path requires that at least one dataset already be allocated under the provided hlq. Other than the 1st qualifier, that should not be required.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

DSFS Fileinfo should report ALL models under HLQ

When using the dsadm fileinfo to query the file information, it should report on ALL pds/psmodels under the hlq.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF StorageAPI - GetVolumeList MissingField: PhysicalStatus

We are using z/OSMF Storage API for checking, if all Devices are online. So if anyone varies a disk offline, the check (in CheckMK) gives us a hint. Currently we had the problem: A StoragePool was extended with two more disks, the Pool-Freespace w...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Relax dsadm createparm restrictions

Currently dsadm createparm has restrictions which makes it difficult to use. The HLQ specified for createparm much match the userid that is issueing the createparm command. This makes it impossible to use for HLQ's which are not related to userids...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Provide TLS_NEGKEYSHARE data for TLSV1.2 protocol in zERT Type 119 Subtype 12 Reporting

We would like to see the TLS_NEGKEYSHARE column in zERT Reporting contain the data which will reflect which elliptical curve is in use. The SMF 119 layout has the field below: 40(X'28') SMF119SS_TLS_Neg_Key_Share 2 Binary Negotiated key share:...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Espansion problem on DB2 table allocated on Storage group with available free space

DB2 for z/OS does not elect to reuse the space that it freed up on the first volume of multivolume vsam dat set.DFSMS will not and cannot know it is available for reuse.Since the data set is a Linear Data Set, it is up to the application to determ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

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