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Please develop an AMCE Client for z/OS

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On z/OS this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
2 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Submitted

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
2 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Optional default NEWGEN or NOGEN for edit command SAVE

This applies to PDSE libraries with version 2 and number of generations bigger than 0.AS-IS :You create a new generation of a member every time you change and save it since SAVE NEWGEN is the default for current generation of the member.So if you ...
2 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Request a message informing if LLA is not managing the current LNKLST set as an entity (or that that state has changed from managing to not managing) since it is managing as an entity that allows avoiding some I/O to the dataset.

This will indicate that LNKLST as a whole entity is not being managed by the Library LookAside (LLA)This is when datasets are removed and added back to the LNKLST concatenation.Current error messages for LNKLST did not indicate any problems with L...
3 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

Provide Rest API Interfaces for Health Checks

As a tester, it is useful for me to automate Health Checks remotely while running on the PC rather than having to use the current mechanism of invoking HZSPRINT. I think it would be also useful for general customer automation of Health Checks. We ...
3 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

provide selective backup/restore capability for in progress Software Install configuration date

Recently we went back to see the results of an earlier configuration change and in hast believe we replied incorrectly to a warning about losing all later configuration information (which in this case was quite extensive and time consuming to do o...
6 days ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Increase logical paths limit of 512 for Control Unit (HCD message CBDG085I)

We reached the limit of 512 paths for Control Units when disks are shared between multiple sysplexes. DASD volumes are being forced to be accessed by 3 and even 2 channel paths.
11 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 3 Under review

System SSL HTTP CRL request should understand all valid HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol responses

At the moment System SSL describes the following requirement:"System SSL uses the HTTP/1.1 protocol to send the HTTP CRL request and requires an HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol response.The HTTP response must include a valid content-length field tha...
23 days ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Submitted

Resiliency in a z/OS UNIX shared file system sysplex enivronment

Resiliency in a z/OS UNIX shared file system sysplex enivronment needs to be improved related to the critical mutually exclusive serialized functions (e.g. UNMOUNT, MOVE, MOUNT RESYNC, FILE SYSTEM INITIALIZATION, FILE SYSTEM TAKEOVER, etc.). If on...
3 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Enhance active and status displays with acee userid

Please add to these displays a column with the ACEE Userid - I'm not sure where owner is coming from but we have started tasks that are started by a server address space under the started task userid and then change to a specific userid which is r...
6 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 3 Functionality already exists

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