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    Add Functionality to access EzNOSQL JSON Documents thru TCP/IP from distributed systems (outside z/OS systems)

    EzNOSQL would be a nice and useful product, when JSON documents on z/OS would be accessable from "outside" z/OS out of the box i.e. thru a JDBC driver and /or open systems python libraries.
    4 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Submitted

    Clear SSL session ID for specific port and/or IP address

    Hi IBM development team, We have been requested to clear the SSL Session ID in the session cache (GSKSRVR). The server certificates are updated every year and our operations team would like to confirm if new certificates are used immediately after...
    6 days ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Under review

    LIST of PTFs APPLIED after a specific year

    Hi Team, I hope you are doing well. I am trying to generate a list of PTFs that were applied after a specific time period(for example, after 24.040). Could you please advise what the correct SMPCNTL commands would be to extract this information? I...
    1 day ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

    Make R_ADMIN consistent. Creating a the command line string gives an invalid string

    I want to recreate the profiles for various RACF profiles. I can use R_ADMIN EXTRACT to get the information into memory. I can blindly copy all the fields into the structure required for ADMN_ADD_USER. I specify • '10000000'b – ADMN_FLAGS_NORUN – ...
    1 day ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

    supervisor state is too strong for non update request to r_admin

    I want to pass in a structure of definitions, and get back the RACF command that is generated - without issuing the command. There is no update ... just a string generated I want to use User administration, add user, and set the bits A series of o...
    3 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

    Panel ISRUDSM: Provide extra information of pF1 on copied/moved member

    After copying one or more members, a message '*copied' appeared in prompt column. It should be very helpful to provide the destination (output) library of the last copy action to the user on pressing the pF1 key. In this case a user can confirm th...
    3 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

    Extend the z/OSMF Parmlib Syntax Validation REST API with an additional parameter to specify the z/OS release of the selected Parmlib.

    This feature is needed to successfully check Parmlibs of older z/OS versions. Some Parmlib parameters are z/OS release specific and would fail a syntax check of another release. This property should be taken into account by the REST interface. You...
    9 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Allow for inspection of Local PIs before Sysplex PI

    Currently WLM looks for candidate receivers by first examining all the sysplex PIs at a given importance level before moving onto the local PIs at that importance level. But today’s sysplexes tend to be much more heterogenous than originally envis...
    3 days ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Submitted

    Increase the length allowed for profiles in the RCICSRES and WCICSRES classes

    RACF supplies built in definitions for the default CICS security classes.For RCICSRES and WCICSRES the MAXLNTH values are not large enough for the names that CICS could potentially generate. Currently there are two issues: RCICSRES and WCICSRES ...
    4 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

    Customize initial parameters

    z/ACS calls modules with various parameters, however for the vendors of the products we know various initial parameters which when used will cause various code paths to be taken. This would allow a greater code coverage of our own products when us...
    8 days ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner 0 Submitted

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