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    Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

    An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
    9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

    Add regexp support to dgrep

    Add possibility to search with regexp patterns in dgrep, similarly like grep has. This improves usability of dgrep.
    about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

    Enable create for a sequential extended dataset to take advantage of pervasive encryption

    It was recently found that even though we were passing a DATACLAS that specified EXTENDED attributes, ZOAU appears to be overriding it and it was still landing as a BASIC or LARGE dataset type. We had tried multiple combinations and research befor...
    about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Submitted

    Password spray alerts various sources

    zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
    2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
    4 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

    Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

    The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

    Enhancements to dtouch for VSAM datasets

    It’s important for dtouch (for VSAM) to support the most common IDCAMS parameters as dataset allocation is foundational. be able to specify LRECL (RECORDSIZE) average and maximum be able to specify SHR options (the default is 1,3) provide su...
    5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Provide a command to print (list) the SMS storage and management classes

    As a suggestion, maybe a single command like “psms” with options for data class, storage class and management class.
    5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

    Be able to throttle incoming trafic rates based in USEID using CEX

    We believe it would be beneficial to implement a mechanism that allows throttling of incoming transaction rates in IMS based on the associated user ID. This approach would help safeguard the system against excessive workloads and enable more preci...
    5 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Usability enhancements to jls

    1) Prevent using jls or jls '/*' or ask to confirm as it will try to list all spool jobs (I had to cancel). Feasible to timeout if it takes too long (what is too long)? To prevent looking at all jobs, maybe an environment variable (as much as we d...
    5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Needs more information

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