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Improve Dataset Scanner to use SMF42 records

Today the dataset scanner uses the catalog search interface to record the encryption status of datasets. By the time we actually run the scanner, there have been many thousands of datasets that no longer reside on disk. In our shop we have many th...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Future consideration

Remove 32bit licinsing executables

The security department has marked the 32bit components of the licensing component on a zd&t target as a security risk. We need to be able to choose not to install these components. Files in /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_se...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

visualize mapping of resources to groups to lists to regions

Provide a visualization of the relationship between RDO resources, groups, lists and CICS regions
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Provide Full BAS support within CICS Explorer

The WUI has features (i.e. BAS) that are required in the CICS Explorer to make it more robust and useful. The following are examples of those features: - RASGNDEF (Resource Assignment Definition) or facility to create, display, modify, and delete ...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

PHASEIN Support for JAVA programs running under Liberty Profile

The versioning and alias processing options that are presently available for deploying new Liberty Profile JAVA bundles in CICS require changes to the pre-existing CICS RDO definitions, this is not something that is desired when promoting a new ve...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance zfile tar to include a compression option

zfile tar should include compression to reduce the output for easier archiving and backup. This should take advantage of IBM's hardware compression.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPFUG - Allow an option for the z/TPF user to change the default load balance behavior for SSL Shared Sessions.

In the current environment the default load balance behavior for SSL shared sessions is to assign an SSL daemon at the time the application CTX (context) is created. All sessions for this application will be assigned to this daemon. This behavior ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Plug gaps in Authority Group security

Authority Group is the element by which jobs submitted by IZWS have their security scope described. It is also used to ensure that users cannot update or submit applications that use Authority Groups outside their sphere of responsibility. Occurre...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Merging several PDFs into one single PDF file

Our customer wants to explore the possibility of having a button that merge several PDF files (provided by View Print Jobs) and producing just one output file.
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Add High Speed Connector metrics as a CDC data flow for RTMC

HSC end point metrics are maintained in the group control block (e.g. number of application timeouts), and socket control block structures (e.g. total number of APIs, Total number of errors etc). HSC end point metrics should be added to RTMC as a ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration