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IBM JVM needs to support default credentials cache file created by native kinit program

IBM JVM needs to support default credentials cache file created by native kinit (/usr/bin/kinit) program, like Oracle JVM does today. Our client OCC (big US financial company) requires to secure access to HDFS with Kerberos. We anticipate that mor...
about 7 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

zUNIT need functionality to auto-generate test cases for mainframe application for each type of element

Many RBC mainframe legacy applications that are 30 - 40 years. As they are in need to integrate Quality Control Gating it requires to introduce a huge number of test cases.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 6 Future consideration

Update Sample code inline with product changes

Please can you update EQQJVXIT to represent the latest DSECT for the current plan record layout. The record layout has changed many time and the last update to this module was in TWS V8.5.1. Please can you update the DSECT's for CPOC, CPOP and CPW...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Override EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS at the report level

We would like the capability of defining a different "from" email address for certain reports emailed by Output Manager, rather than using the address that is defined in policy for "EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS".Currently specified is the email address of t...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Artifactory Support

The support for z/D&T z/OS images and storage is basically (s)FTP. Support for Artifactory as an image repository would greatly enhance its flexibility.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Address Stop / Storage alteration

An API to hook into emulated cpu so I could halt it when a particular s390 instruction is executed or an address hit and an API to inspect and alter emulated memory. All these APIs are intended for code coverage and debugging
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

Improve IEBCOPY performance for PDS to PDS copies

The IBM Software Migration Project Office has customer migrations from CA PDSMAN to IBM products. The performance of IEBCOPY is critical for such migrations.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

Update CICS SPI INQUIRE CONNECTION to provide ATTACHSEC, SECURITYNAME, BINDSECURITY and USEDFLTUSER fields

We have a customer looking for security related information in connection resource; specifically ATTACHSEC. According to CEDA DEFINE the following fields are available in CICS resource definition for Security: SECURITY SEcurityname ==> ATtachse...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Decision/Branch Level Code Coverage

Currently, line level coverage is the most specific level of code coverage offered. This is comparable to statement coverage on other platforms. However, to really get a more complete indication of the level of coverage achieved by a testing suite...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Secure the integrity of the installed EKMF software by encryption of the disk

Currently an attack vector might be that somebody manipulates the EKMF Java classes on disk and then waits for an operator/admin with sufficient access rights to use the workstation. The attacker might be able to extract key material by just trans...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Future consideration

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