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zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
20 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Under review

SDSF - Add RACF Template RACF Information

Add to the SDSF panel 'RACF' two new columns that shows the installed and available RACF template version.
20 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Under review

Implenent allocation strategies for CFRM structures as alternative to the preflist

In the definition of CFRM structures, the preflist statement must be individually coded for each structure. As the environment grows, the number of structures can increase rapidly, making it challenging and error-prone to ensure that the preflist ...
21 days ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Under review

Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy structure's PREFLIST

Currently the maximum CFs per each structure's PREFLIST parameter in a CFRM policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Under review

Improve RACROUTE macro for REQUEST=FASTAUTH to MNOTE on missing WKAREA

RACROUTE REQUEST=FASTAUTH needs a second work area (WKAREA) that other requests like "auth" don't require (they just required the WORKA), the idea is to add a MNOTE, just like when the normal work area is missing:** ASMA254I *** MNOTE *** 154+ 12,...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

Support for Large Block Interface in IRRADU00

By enabling LBI for OUTDD (or XMLFORM), IRRADU00 would spend less CPU time on I/O processing, thereby potentially increasing throughput. Also, data compression on tape would be more efficient when storing large OUTDD data sets.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

Require DFSMS DSS to provide detailed messages about the encryption status of data sent to the cloud, and also to enquire on crypto status of cloud-resident data.

Any enterprise sending data to the cloud must be confident the data sent is encrypted at the target and on the wire with customer keys and not just the provider keys. Messages should be issued displaying the status. In addition a query command nee...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Under review

Add advanced encryption algorithms for DUMP/RESTORE

Right now, DFSMS DSS dump/restore support the following encryption algorithms. CLRTDES - This option specifies that the dumped data is encrypted with a clear triple-length DES key. CLRAES128 - This option specifies that the dumped data is encrypte...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Under review

Add to IPCS possibility formatting CTRACE SYSTCPDA data to pcapng sniffer format (currently only pcap format is possible)

pcapng format will keep information which is lost in pcap (for instance interface packet information). This information can be valuable during problem determination
2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

Enable SRB during IODF (soft) Activate

Activating a new IODF can be a time-consuming process, especially when dealing with multiple sysplexes from different customers distributed across all CPCs that require activation. The process involves distributing the IODF to all sysplexes and pe...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Under review

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