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Reclassifying messages type EZZ8441I and EZZ8438I to Error (E) status

Reclassifying messages type EZZ8441I and EZZ8438I to Error (E) status EZZ8441I PAGENT MODIFY COMMAND UNSUCCESSFUL - SYNTAX ERROR EZZ8438I PAGENT POLICY DEFINITIONS CONTAIN ERRORS FOR image : type They can go unnoticed by automation and by less exp...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Default values of IEAOPT CCIMP, CCIMPBOOST parms should be 0

We would like to control the way the cpu protection is assigned to a workload using WLM instead of IEOPT CCIMP, CCIMPBOOST parms. These parameters assign implicitly the cpu critical to the whole importance 1 or 2 workloads. For customers that have...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

add compression support for VSAM ESDS (extended format)

Same use case as SAM. We don't have large amount of VSAM ESDS, but what we have we like to have compressed and encrypted. As the name imply, VSAM ESDS is Entry-Sequenced Data Sets. zEDC should be used for compression. We like to compress them befo...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Security-Optimization (Change the validation chain of the PLAz server certificate to a certification authority pre-installed at FI) - PLAz-Tool

Root certificate for browser import and FI security requirements: Information security policy on the use of cryptographic procedures - For the authentication of communication partners using certificates, only currently trusted certification author...
3 months ago in z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Changes on USER's profile to take effect without requiring re-login of an already logged-on user

This will be useful as it eliminates the need for a already logged user to log out and log back in after changes on user's profile (e.g. connected groups) .
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

The z/OSMF APP Center should only show icons for the APPs that the end user has access rights to

Seeing APPs in the APP Center that the end users are not authorized to or don't know what they are used for, is confusing to the end users, who in turn raise problem tickets because they are not authorized to use an app or don't know what the app ...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

XCF_CDS_SPOF Healthcheck

Provide customization to exclude mirrored Logger CDS from the SPOF healthcheck, because mirrored CDS are not a SPOF.
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Not under consideration

Change authorization to the LISTDSD and RLIST commands and remove access from ID without any privileges.

The current access to the LISTDSD/RLIST commands allow TSO users to build an access list of all dataset and resource it has access to. This allow the ID to explore any mistake in RACF rule and build attack vectors without logging. remove the follo...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Client Certificate validation on AT-TLS Server with client authentication

In AT-TLS, when the HandshakeRole parameter is set to ServerWithClientAuth, a certificate request is sent to the client during the handshake. The client can send its certificate to the server, which can then validate the certificate. The level of ...
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RACF certificate mirroring for z/OS Unix

More and more tools are being ported to z/OS that cannot interface with RACF, which is annoying because sometimes RACF already has some of the certificates these tools need in a keyring. It would be cool if we could somehow define that a keyring s...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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