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Provide a plugin to KAFKA on z/OS to allow the ability to configure the PKI services and use the RACF key ring.

KAFKA on z/OS is missing a plugin similar to what WebSphere Liberty does include and provide out of the box, allowing to configure the PKI services and use the RACF key ring. The solution being requested: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topi...
20 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloa...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Allow using pre-existing Kafka cluster with Common Data Provider

In sensitive / high-restrictions environments, it's not possible to deploy our own little Kafka cluster, let alone with the auto-creation of topics.It is necessary to point to the existing Kafka footprint in an env., and to use mTLS for authn/auth...
29 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2 Under review

Enable AT-TLS for CDP and make it use certificates in RACF

In environments with tighter security controls, storing .p12 files 'willy nilly' is not allowed.Like Omegamon Data Provider, please make CDP support working with certificates associated with the CDP STC owner's keyring in RACF, and let AT-TLS hand...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

Don't include 64-bit common buffer storage for HBOSMF task in a SVC dump

We have experienced sysplex wide slow down events due to dump processing having to capture large 64-bit common memory objects. To prevent dump processing causing system wide performance issues, it was recommeded by IBM to not include 64-bit common...
6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Under review

SMF92-subtype 51 to 59 in zCDP

We're currently working on zFS statistics to tune the performance, looking at HBORS092 member in CDP SHBODEFS, it looks like the SMF92 subtype 5x are missing (51 to 59). Could you please update zCDP and create some nice datastreams to monitor zFS ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keyword, which can result in massive output messages for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This can impact the operations of system operators. It also affects overall workload throughput due t...
about 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Additional fields required by UKO Crypto Connect CAT

We're working on API for IBM Z Crypto Discovery & Inventory product which provides SMF records streaming and further processing. We noticed during implementation that there are fields missing in SMF 82 subtypes 31/40/41/42/44/45/46. These miss...
6 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2

Bypass combined DBRC UNAUTH request for multiple AREAs

/DBR DB and /DBR AREA commands can issue the DBRC UNAUTH request for a list of AREAs, the maximum number of AREAs in one list being 160. When the UNAUTH request is isseued for a list of AREAs, the RECON can be reserved for a long period of time. T...
about 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 0 Under review