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ZOSMF - Add a DEFAULT KEYRING as a Selectable/Default Option in z/OSMF Signature Verification Keyring

Currently, the Signature verification keyring field in z/OSMF requires users to manually enter the keyring name when accessing z/OSMF for the first time on a new system. For example, in our environment, we use a standard keyring such as STCUSER/CV...
about 5 hours ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

RMF 74.1 should be updated to allow a simple association between related primary and secondary I/Os

When CRS (Consistent Read from Secondary) is activated, RMF data cannot be used to accurately report on the z/OS online I/O activity. Secondary read I/Os are performed to offline devices and there is no possibility of easily associating the origin...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer Future consideration

Monitoring Initial Size of Coupling Facility Structures

It was noticed a problem during a Coupling Facility outage when was necessary to move structures from one CF to another CF. The rebuild/recovery process was not completed sucessfully because the INITSIZE of a WMQ Structure was smaller than the req...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES Future consideration

Switch the deploy checklist to move the perform workflows to be after the create of the Software Instance

We have some use cases where individuals have performed the "perform workflows" via the deployment checklist and thought they were done and did not come back and complete the deployment final step that creates the software instance.  There is...
5 days ago in z/OS / SMP/E Future consideration

Optimization output naviquest batch ACBJBARD and ACBJBAXV

We need a optimization output naviquest batch report ACBJBARD (Invokes ACBQBAR7 for dataset) and ACBJBAXV(Invokes ACBQBAR6 for DASD volume report). Currently, in job outputs the space values are left-aligned, and the information may be shown in KB...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest Future consideration

Allow RACF Containment to support RACF subplexes

We have a sysplex with > 1 RACF sublexes. there may be many customers who have a similar use case where they would rather limit containment within the data sharing group and not XSYS. Since ENF is used to route the event across the entire syspl...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

To capture the SC's LOCK SET NAME from the DCOLLECT

Today, DCOLLECT does not provide the lock structure information, which limits our ability to validate the definitions between the Current SCDS and the New SCDS.The below records are being generated from the DCOLLECT and used for the comparison bet...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest Future consideration

Log RACF keyring and certificate usage to enable proper validation and auditing

Determining whether a RACF keyring or any RACF certificate is still in use by an application (e.g., started task, batch job, etc.) is a very challenging task. Neither RACF nor other components like zERT generate SMF records that capture the usage ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

Include one option for BATCH INITIATOR AI-INFUSED field on RMF WLMGL report

Currently on RMF WLMGL reports for service classes there is one field named BATCH INITIATOR AI-INFUSED which can be either YES or NO. This field is supposed to tell when AI is enabled or not for a certain Service class. However, when we use the SI...
4 months ago in z/OS / RMF Future consideration

z/OS WLM Policy advisor update

z/OSMF WLM Policy advisor is a handy tool to help analyze performance for the service classes of LPARs in a Sysplex. Its possible to select LPARs heatmaps and check their PIs through time, but there is only information about the LOCAL PIs. It woul...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

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