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Incorporate the REXX Compiler into z/OS

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 08/23/2022 Submitter Name: Lionel B Dyck (Senior Software Engineer) Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: REXX is being shipped with more products on z/OS including system automation and sys...
over 2 years ago in z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Avoid out of storage abends in LLA

LLA should not try to honor LLACOPY when there is not enough private memory available to do so. A better behavior would be to reject the LLACOPY and produce a proper CSV message to indicate this anomaly. Maybe it is possible to delay the LLACOPY t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

Health check enhancement for XCF_CDS in a zOS Hyperswap environment managed by CSM

The existing checks XCF_CDS_SPOF and XCF_CDS_SEPARATION don't check in a HyperSwap environment that primary CDSes and alternate CDSes are on separate DASD boxes of different sites. An extention should check the site information of the HyperSwap se...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF Edit Panel REXX to See *ALL* of the Data

Enhance ISPF Panel REXX to allow access beyond the zscreeni (current screen) to see the entire edit/view data. This will allow changing hilighting when text spans screens, and will also allow other actions based on the entire edit data rather than...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Add OpenSSH parameter to control whether RACF checks are made by the TERMINAL or SERVAUTH class

Please add a parameter to control whether RACF checks are made by the TERMINAL or SERVAUTH classes, such as the PORTOFENTRY4 parameter for FTP. Per PMR23901,7TD,000 discussion if a remote IP address is covered at all in ANY NETACCESS statement the...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 1 Future consideration

Extend JES2 SSI to return INTRDR settings like AUTH and CLASS

Please add an API extension (presumably in SSI 82) to be able to obtain the current JES2 INTRDR (template) settings as modified by $T INTRDR. Specifically AUTH is urgently needed, but more settings like CLASS are welcome.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

DSNTYPE=LARGE support as INPUT for IFASMFDP

This is a new public REQUEST for an older requets to permit user's votes on it.Initial request = MR0311105836 from 2011Migrated to RFE request as: RFE 50060 in 2014Due to increasing of SMF data, we need now to be able to use DSNTYPE=LARGE with IFA...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Use USS_PARMLIB Health Checker on Libraries other than SYS1.PARMLIB

We use USS_PARMLIB Health checks on our BPXPRMxx members in SYS1.PARMLIB. However, most errors occur during IPL time with an updated version of these members. It would be convenient if we can use the USS_PARMLIB Health check on other (distribution...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Enhance zERT discovery to be more accurate in recognizing and recording TLS sessions with very large handshake messages and unusual timing

zERT discovery is currently unable to recognize TLS sessions when handshake messages exceed the maximum TLS record length. It also relies on timers in specific situations that can sometimes generate misleading information regarding TLS sessions th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Encryption Facility must display the Key id used to decypher a message

When we receive an OpenPGP document (message), it is decypher by IBM Encryption Facility. Only two messages are displayed by the tool : CSD0779I Signature by key ID 7FCA32ED59C06F76 is valid.CSD0051I Command processing has completed successfully. ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

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