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JES_NJE_SECURITY Health Check Modification

Our environments unique design does not require only one component of the JES_NJE_Security check. We've determined that we are unable to deactivate just this component and are therefore requesting that the component be separated from the original ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Have TN3270 Task to provide a Count Down message when a Certificate that is cached it should provide messages on the cert and expiration

The CERT is cached when the TN3270 is started. When that cert is nearing expiration (30 days or less) there are no messages in TN3270 that state the cert is about to expire. Or how many days it is until expiration. Or what the name of the cert tha...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Store/create/use SSH public-private key pairs in RACF and/or ICSF without using SSL certs

provide a means (similar to RACDCERT) to create, store, import, export, display, etc., SSH Public-Private key pairs within RACF, associated with a User ID, for use with SSH Ported Tools functionality (and ideally won't conflict with Dovetailed ven...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Future consideration

PING Enhancement

On command line when issuing a PING command, I would like to add an additional feature to allow time interval between multiple PING counts. This feature is already available in UNIX OSs. For example: Ping Example 1. Increase or Decrease the Time I...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

IBM z/OSMF REST API support user token authentication

Currently z/OSMF REST API support the following ways of authentication: -Basic authentication -Certificate authentication -Web token authentication We'd like to have user token or private key authentication supported, such that users don't need to...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Desktop Dataset Search api - Add support to edit MVS data sets with different code pages

For users who are not very familiar with ISPF, the Desktop Dataset Search feature of z/OSMF makes it possible to work with MVS data sets and unix files. Currently the z/OSMF Desktop Dataset Search api supports the edit of a unix file with a differ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Availability of Cryptographic Services

When ICSF is started it will check the Master Key Verification Patterns(MKVP) in the header records of the CKDS and PKDS. When an MKVP is found then a check is made to see if that Master Key is found in the coprocessors. If it is found and it matc...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

SYSZIGW0 should prevent deletion

My customer encountered the message IGW039I while allocating a new dataset although the dataset could have been deleted normally. The deletion should be prevented by qname SYSZIGW0. Please refer to case TS009656465 for more details.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SMP TRANSFERONLY PTF Download

If i Download PTFS/HOLDATA with the TRANSFERONLY option i have a unix directory with a few files and an Order Entry in CSI The Order entry in CSI tells me the requested PTFS and or Holddata, but the exact content downloaded is unknown without RECE...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

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