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    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

    Allow VSAM Data Sets To Consider Previously Used Volumes Prior To Extend Failures

    Allow new extents for VSAM data sets to consider previously used volumes before failing the extend with out of volume error.The feature will be very useful to Db2 tablespace and index extend processing which will provide additional Db2 object avai...
    3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Under review

    Increase MAXSESSIONS Limit

    MAXSESSIONS limit of 2000 isn't high enough for out needs. Can you increase this value ?
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 2 Under review

    Allow otel.resource.attributes and otel.exporter.otlp.headers labels to be configurable

    At UBS, it is mandatory to include billing information and software owner identification when sending data to our OTEL Landing Zone. This is achieved by setting the otel.resource.attributes and otel.exporter.otlp.headers fields. Without these attr...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 0 Under review

    Easier tool to help with structure sizing during CFLEVEL upgrades

    We would like to have a tool that would read the current CF structures and generate a new CFRM policy source with all the structures increased simply based on the current CFLEVEL and a specified TARGET CFLEVEL. The tool would assume that the curre...
    20 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Under review

    IEBPTPCH includes a module IEBPPCH1 which includes SIIS coding and it causes increase CPU TIME under z15 or z16.

    This client migrated hardware from zEC12 to z15 and z16 with z/OS V2R1 to V2R5. IEBPTPCH CPU time increased four times after migration of hardware and z/OS. We opened a case as TS019579686 and SME recommended us to open IBM ideas as follows. From ...
    7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Under review

    V SMS,PDSE,ANALYSIS should not require UPDATE on MVS.VARY.SMS

    RACF profile MVS.VARY.SMS protects the use of the VARY SMS command. With the V SMS command, you can change config/settings that influence the system. Therefor the required UPDATE access can only be granted to limited users. (high privileged users ...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Under review

    Add an error message to the chown command if user is lacking a uid or OMVS segment

    You can't set a user as owner of a z/OS Unix file with chown if they don't have a UID in their OMVS segment, yet the command gives no feedback if this occurs, this means you can think you set someone as owner without actually being able to do it a...
    8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Under review

    Add error message to the chgrp command if group has no gid

    I suggest adding an error message to the chgrp command if the group has no gid or no OMVS segment. <insert incomprehensible IBM error code> Group has no GID, command failed And another error message if the group has no OMVS segment <inser...
    8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Under review

    Implement python3 support for BCPii

    As of today, BCPii v1 and v2 (HWIREST) offer callable services for REXX, C, and Assembler. However, making REST-like calls using REXX, C, or Assembler can be cumbersome due to the limited or overly complex support for essential functionalities suc...
    6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 2 Under review

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