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Core Infrastructure

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Have the possibility to pass directly from password to passphrase authentication when you need to change your password.

For upgrade the security, the company decides to switch from password authentication to passphrase authentication . For the moment the RACF administrator removes the password and sets up the passphrase for the UID. But the administrateur have ta s...
2 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

IEBPTPCH includes a module IEBPPCH1 which includes SIIS coding and it causes increase CPU TIME under z15 or z16.

This client migrated hardware from zEC12 to z15 and z16 with z/OS V2R1 to V2R5. IEBPTPCH CPU time increased four times after migration of hardware and z/OS. We opened a case as TS019579686 and SME recommended us to open IBM ideas as follows. From ...
17 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Submitted

Add an error message to the chown command if user is lacking a uid or OMVS segment

You can't set a user as owner of a z/OS Unix file with chown if they don't have a UID in their OMVS segment, yet the command gives no feedback if this occurs, this means you can think you set someone as owner without actually being able to do it a...
19 days ago in z/OS / USS 3 Submitted

Add error message to the chgrp command if group has no gid

I suggest adding an error message to the chgrp command if the group has no gid or no OMVS segment. <insert incomprehensible IBM error code> Group has no GID, command failed And another error message if the group has no OMVS segment <inser...
19 days ago in z/OS / USS 2 Submitted

Please provide full out-of-the box support for AD & Azure Entra integration with full availability decoupling

As per of full out-out-of-box RACF integration to AD & Azure Entra, we need all capabilities to be supported including AD user ID and passwords logins mapped to RACF accounts & passwords for availability decoupling (along will full lifecyc...
6 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Add a Shell Pipefail Option

The USS Shell does not support a pipefail option on other linux i have a shell option -o pipefail This setting prevents errors in a pipeline from being masked. If any command in a pipeline fails, that return code will be used as the return code of...
9 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

AI System Services Spark AT-TLS Encryption

Currenty, the Spark (Master/Worker) part of MLz will be configured without AT-TLS during the setup of the AI System Services Framework with the z/OSMF Workflows. In times of Zero Trust this should be changed, so that all ports (including Spark Mas...
2 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Submitted

Messages IGZ0201x to be written on syslog too

When a COBOL file definition does not match in record length with the JCL job, then it is running with high CPU (looping). At the moment the message IGZ0201W (A file attribute mismatch was detected. File ... in program ... had a record length of x...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / LE 0 Submitted

Enhance the z/OSMF programming guide to rotate sideways-tables back to vertical, or re-design them if it's not possible.

Most people read publication online, it is very difficult to read doc sideways, especially there are so many sideways-tables in this doc. Please see table 4 (Event types shipped with z/OSMF) as an example as well as tables from 603 to 615 in chapt...
24 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Eliminate catalog contention for suspended catalogs

Catalog contention occurs when Catalog Search Interface generic filter of "**" is used for Z type requests. If customer suspends a catalog for maintenance, vendor code (BMC - Thruput Manager) does CSI request to obtain catalog names. When this occ...
12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Submitted

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