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Include additional open-source tools for System Administration/Automation, CI/CD Pipelines and Development.

Enhance development ease of use, expand system administration/automation capabilities and continue to transfer Linux skills to the z/OS platform. A suggestion for the next set of tools to add: System Admin: sudo, gpg, openssl CI/CD: groovy/gradle,...
6 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Add OpenSSL port for z/OS to Open Enterprise Foundation

We used to have through the IBM ported tools which are no longer available. Afterwards it was included in the IDz product, the FMID included a target path with Rocket tools. But since some PTFs ago OpenSSL is no longer included. Currently there is...
6 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting

Add Enterprise Key Inventory and Reporting functionality to EKMF. This will help to remove the need for a manual key inventory that organisations often manage in spreadsheets and to automate the maintenance and reporting operations, thereby removi...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 2 Future consideration

GDPS Metro Enhancement

Hyperswap script execution failed because of active CC sessions.
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

IPConn negotiated receives count, Indicate in message text

Messages show IPConn autoinstall details, but does not indicate the negotiated sessions. For example CICS IPConn has receive sessions of 150; zCEE (Z/OS Connect) specifies 100. The autoinstalled IPConn picks the lower of 100. Text in message DFHIS...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Request for application not visible in SMU when coming from Rest Server (API)

I notice the following in SMU: if an application (e.g.) is stopped via the api then it is not visible in SMU that there is a vote/request for this application. That's not very convenient.....You can now see that an application is DOWN but not why ...
4 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

zSort Support for zWS

Allow usage of the hardware accelerated approach to sorting by z/OS Workload Scheduler (zWS) to take advantage of the IBM Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort. The aim will be to reduce the CPU costs and improve the elapsed time for eligible batch wo...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Request that CICS added transaction tracking /origin data for web services routed by CICS RZ domain request streams processin

The explanation is that a new point of origin is created in the AOR when a web service pipeline handler transaction is routed over an MRO connection. as shown in this link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6?topic=data-origin-characteristics...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Suppress specific log messages in Liberty

With JVM server profile option "LOG_LEVEL", I can control the level of messages, that will be written to Liberty "messages.log" and dfhjvmlog. For example "LOG_LEVEL=WARNING" supresses all Info-messages. We want to suppress only specific messages,...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

GDPS 4.1 Missing FlashCopy Devices Information

The information from VPCPFCSO panel does not provide the device number of the tertiary copy which is what we are interested in. Under GDPS 3.14, we can obtain the tertiary DASD info from GDPS under FCQueryS from VPCPQSH1 panel under DASD REMOTE COPY.
about 5 years ago in GDPS 15 Future consideration