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Python - Add MSAL library from Microsoft to call Azure API for authentication

We have a use-case to automate PKI calls using APIs in Azure but that requires the MSAL library from Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/msal-overviewHowever, when running the python script that relies in msal the ...
about 1 month ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 2 Submitted

Allow UKO to generate secure HMAC keys

UKO Customers who would like to migrate from legacy to enhanced passtickets would benefit from using UKO to generate HMAC keys for passticket usage
9 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

Idea is to have the current value and the threshold value in the OC8900, OC8902 or OC8903 messages when they are triggering the events.

It will be useful to know the actual value at the time of the issue which will help everyone to understand the situation at that point of time when we have an email notification email/alert. we are expecting the values in the N/A > N/A. This wi...
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Messages 1 Not under consideration

Bulk/batch operations from the user interface

I wih that the UKO user interface had some way to import a set of keys, instead the key by key option that is possible at the moment
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Feature to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER, EXPORTEr

We don´t have the option to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER and EXPORTER in the UKO. It would be interestig to have this feature
11 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add support for ZFS in zoautil_py.datasets.copy()

It should be possible to copy a whole ZFS dataset, not just a zFS file.
3 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Submitted

Including KafkaProducer in Python AI Toolkit for z/OS

This benefits the users who are trying to collect data residing in a z/OS environment and publish to Kafka
7 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

UKO Certificate Management

As a Key Manager I can view and manage certificates within UKO Key Management Use Cases: Generating private/public key pairs Generating CSRs Importing certificates from a CA Distributing keys and certificates (including the chain to a root) to HPC...
almost 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add pyzfile to the supported packages

Pyzfile (pronounced pie-zee-file) is a Python package for performing I/O on native MVS record oriented data sets. All access methods are supported including QSAM, BSAM, VSAM (KSDS, ESDS, RRDS) and hiperspaces. This library is a wrapper over the z/...
over 1 year ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increased inventory for data-science packages

We're looking for an increased data science package inventory that includes sentence-transformers, sentence-transformers, fasttext, jellyfish, phonetics, RapidFuzz, spellwise, SymSpell for python 3.13+
5 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Future consideration