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This item is unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Product - Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Component - HMC/Support Element (SE)
Operating system - Other
Source - Other
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - z Systems Software
Product - z/OS
Component - BCP_BCPii
Operating system - Other
Source - Other
To ensure we understand the request correctly, would you please confirm that you're interested in support of IOCDS and/or crypto settings that are not part of the existing various activation profiles.
IBM agrees with the general intention of this request, but no firm commitment on if and when this can be delivered can be given at this time. Any change to potentially make retrieve these new data types via the z/OS BCPii interface will also need the concurrence and support of the System z firmware team before going forward.
Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #50318 in product z/OS.