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Automatic Binary Optimizer for the Operating System

Since years, there is the ABO available for COBOL. The latest z/OS always supports up to minus two generations of hardware. So after you update a z/OS and a machine, you still can't benefit at all from the latest hardware. The idea is to add a sim...
5 days ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Submitted

Multiple Image Registry for zCX

This is a request for Enhancement in z/OS Container Extensions (zcx or classic zCX). zCX currently allows only one secure image registry & its certificate to be specified in its configuration. If we want to change the image registry, we need t...
about 16 hours ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

RACF Extract API for JWTs (enhancement for ZOS-I-4417)

This is an additon for ZOS-I-4417, but it would also be usefull if it could be provided for the existing JWT validation... With RACF be able to validate JWTs, there should be a service avalable to extract the information out of the JWT after it go...
7 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Make Keylabel persistent in ICF Catalog

We are at a stage where we are starting to have pervasive encryption. So we need to be able to know at any point in the life of a record, whether it is active or migrated, whether it is encrypted or not and what key was used. We need that for our...
1 day ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Submitted

Support Compression for zCX-VSAM Files

We want to compress the data from zCX at runtime to minimize the I/Os and the used space on DASD. For Pervasive Encryption it is recommended to compress data before encryption. For zFS VSAM-LDS Files it is possible to compress by using zfsadm comm...
22 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

Support auto replying to ILR031A

During a Region Switch, there is a delay of less than 10 minutes between shutdown at site 1 and IPL at site 2. Because of this, message ILR031A is emitted during and requires a reply. This is the only NIP message that we can't automate - the rest ...
4 days ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Submitted

z/OS Health Checker HZSPRINT utility enhancemnet

z/OS Health Check utility HZSPRINT provides the user with good information about the checks in place, however it doesn't show the state of it as it could be verified in SDSF for example. Using the the F HZSPROC,DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAILS it provides t...
22 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Submitted

Allow multiple people to interact with a workflow without needing to take ownership

We have multiple systems programmers on our team. In the event that a systems programmer is unwell/ sick , we can't view the "perform" section of a workflow owner by a different user. It would be great if we could view all steps in the workflow wi...
7 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Submitted

Increase SMT Simultaneous multithreading greater than 2

Since several month, we have lot of Rest Api calling DB2 from DDF gateway and DB2 API rest use is increasing. These Api Rest are very short and execute on ZIIP. Many years ago, when we activate SMT to 2, we noticed a real benefits for DB2 running ...
7 days ago in z/OS / General 0 Submitted

Create an environment variable on /usr/lpp/dfsms/gdk/providers

Hello, Seems the ZFS for the System was in R/O can you create an environment variable like for the Resolver ? For now we create a Symbolic link to manage CDA for exemple ln -s /datas/gdk/providers /usr/lpp/dfsms/gdk/providers RESOLVER_CONFIG envir...
18 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Submitted

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