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TABR - Capture retention date for tape backups

In the TABR reporting it dose not report on how long the backups will exists. It will be great to have a feature that captures the retention period for tape datasets to allow the user to understand how long the backup will be retained.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DFHSM Multi-Cluster enhancement

DFHSM multi-cluster for the MCDS currently uses key ranges that are associated to datasets on the system. I would like an enhancement to be developed in which DFHSM puts some type of dummy marker at the beginning and end of the additional clusters...
about 6 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

I would like to have a data base for dumps so we can issue a command to list a data sets for restore from full volume dum

I would like build a data base concept for dumps. hsend list dsname('T.VND.PR.CAP.DXCOMC.G0015V00') both term
about 6 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

Support 4K RSA Encryption/Decryption via Crypto

The Dept. of Treasury is requiring us to adopt stronger security standards, such as using >2K public/private RSA keys, specifically, 3K or 4K keys. The issue is performance-related (CPU). The z/TPF OS has only put in support to call the crypto ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

zospt job support

Our Cics Regions run not as started tasks, but as jobs. We would need to create jobs instead of started tasks.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Other 0 Future consideration

Have real-time errors and warnings be placed into a tab/view for ease of viewing

We would like to have the errors and warnings that are produced during real-time syntax checking be placed into a tab/view such as the Remote Error List or the general Problems views. It would also be nice for the behaviour of items in the list to...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

CTCz Status check function

It is too difficult to check the status of some components on Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS. 1) Cloud Servers StatusThere is no way to check this status except ISPF panel. Please add OS command to check this status and OS message which show the st...
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Remove synchronized from java.security.SecureRandom.nextBytes(byte[] bytes) to improve performance.

java.security.SecureRandom.nextBytes(byte[] bytes) is synchronized in IBM JDK 1.8.0 version which is causing performance issue as causing other threads to wait for the lock. Oracle and OpenJDK has removed synchronized from java.security.SecureRand...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Norm State Pool Reallocation package

Please see the SR for further information: We have recently used ODBR to move DEVC pools to DEVB. We are now finalizing testing for running a norm state pool re-organization to reassign pools owned by DEVC to the new DEVB owner. Following the norm...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TWSd remote commands should run without password if running ssh

If you configure SSH on Unix manually and transfer the ssh keys you can run commands without entering a password , the TWSd Remote Commands jobs should work the same way this will mean we are no longer dependant on a static password for these job ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration