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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

DSFS takes 2 minutes to release ENQ on dataset member

Problem: We are starting to use DSFS. When I open a member in DSFS, I can see there is an enqueue of DSFS on the member. But when closing the file, it takes another 2 minutes before the enqueue is lifted. We tried to change the following values in...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

IBM GTZ for EAV support should provide the dataset name when a module is found as being in error

Hello, When the tracker identify a program not EAV compliant for example for reason SMS-E:1 DADSM OBTAIN, the tracker should provide on which dataset name the problem was found This could allow to migrate one storage group to EAV if we found that ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

Repeat msg CSFM655I AN ARCHIVED RECORD COLINCIPHER2 IN THE ACTIVE CKDS WAS REFERENCED,whenever CSF restarted

I used an archived keyand got message CSFM655I AN ARCHIVED RECORD COLINCIPHER2 IN THE ACTIVE CKDS WAS REFERENCED. If I shutdown ICSF and restarted it, then used the key again, I did not get the message. It would be good if ICSF can produce the mes...
16 days ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 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

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

Enhance the Certificate Management>Delete and Archive Certificate task, such that multiple recovery points are available for the Certificate Management>Work with Archived Certificate>Install task.

Idea raised in response to case TS017583057. Enhance the Certificate Management>Delete and Archive Certificate task, such that multiple recovery points are available for the Certificate Management>Work with Archived Certificate>Install ta...

Allow the use of EKMF to create/store GDK keys

We use EKMF exclusively to manage the content of our CKDS, as a policy choice. I have been getting push back from our Key management team to allow us to use the current CDA setup for generating and storing keys. It would be helpful if CDA allowed ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 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