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Convert RACF to UTF-8

It would be beneficial if RACF supported full UTF-8 natively, it would allow greater support for specialized characters in names and descriptions, it would also make communication with other systems much easier.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Submitted

Add a confirmation panel for Free command in ISPF command line.

In ISPF add a confirmation panel for Free command. My customers want this fucntion. Becase they wants to prohibit thier datasets from being compressed unintentional.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Implement python3 support for BCPii

As of today, BCPii v1 and v2 (HWIREST) offer callable services for REXX, C, and Assembler. However, making REST-like calls using REXX, C, or Assembler can be cumbersome due to the limited or overly complex support for essential functionalities suc...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 0 Submitted

z/OSMF - Get dynamic window sizes in Sysplex Management Plugin

When working on a big screen and running zOSMF "Sysplex Management" plugin in full screen mode to work on CFRM policy structure or others, the window does not scale to the real size of the window of the browser. The zOSMF plugin itself is limited ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Move settings of password phrase rules from ICHPWX11-exit to RACF SETROPTS

Today we use the Exit ICHPWX11 to manage our rules for RACF Password Phrases (e.g. length of Password Phrase, valid Characters). Unfortunately the exit is not supported by IBM. A sample is delivered with SYS1.SAMPLIB, but the most current version ...
14 days ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Submitted

Allow customer control of ssh host keys in the SSH CLI container

When configured with LDAP (“ZCX_SSHD_LDAP_ENABLE TRUE”) the SSH CLI container is generating new host keys every restart, this prevents using ssh key authentication and host verification, the latter is a security issue as the identity of the host c...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Submitted

Advanced Audit for DFHSM - FIXAUDIT volume too much for default HSM ODS Allocation

When there is a sizable amount of commands being issued to DFHSM by a FIXAUDIT process, the DFHSM ODS file quickly exhausts its default space allocation which leads to DFHSM receiving an S878-10 abend and shutting down. In this example, once the O...
19 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Submitted

Allow modification of the core_pattern in zCX.

Currently the core_pattern (/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern) in zCX contains string “|/usr/sbin/event-daemonCoreDump.sh %e %p %s” even though /usr/sbin/event-daemonCoreDump.sh is not supplied by IBM. This prevents capturing core dumps in containers.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

Adding Functionality into RMF Monitor III and Z Performance Capacity Analytics for MQ

Dear IBM Team We have been provided with the IBM MQ Support Pac to interpret SMF data and the MQCMD utility to use. I can confirm it is very useful in the absence if anything else, if you required to keep channel message information and data trend...
7 days ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Submitted

DFSMSrmm: EDGAUD ability to select by data set name

EDGAUD Currently the EDGAUD utility used to generate reports using SMF record is limited to using following selections: DATE INTERNALRACKS USERSVOLUMES It would be useful to also include DATASET name. Only other way to get information by data set ...
12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Submitted