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    Allow read-only access in the network configuration assistant

    The NCA plugin allows for collaborative access to the Policy Agent policies, but only allows one user access at a time. It is quite common for someone to open it and leave the browser tab open, holiding the lock. When another user tries to access ...
    1 day ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Submitted

    Have bpxwmigf check desired access to filesystem dataset is permitted before starting

    It is possible for bpxwmigf to mirror and swap to use the new filesystem but then fail to perform the rename of the target(or source) if ALTER access was not permitted. While no outage occurs, this does lead to additional work to either repeat the...
    2 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

    Make R_ADMIN consistent. Creating a the command line string gives an invalid string

    I want to recreate the profiles for various RACF profiles. I can use R_ADMIN EXTRACT to get the information into memory. I can blindly copy all the fields into the structure required for ADMN_ADD_USER. I specify • '10000000'b – ADMN_FLAGS_NORUN – ...
    4 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

    supervisor state is too strong for non update request to r_admin

    I want to pass in a structure of definitions, and get back the RACF command that is generated - without issuing the command. There is no update ... just a string generated I want to use User administration, add user, and set the bits A series of o...
    5 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

    Panel ISRUDSM: Provide extra information of pF1 on copied/moved member

    After copying one or more members, a message '*copied' appeared in prompt column. It should be very helpful to provide the destination (output) library of the last copy action to the user on pressing the pF1 key. In this case a user can confirm th...
    5 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

    Allow for inspection of Local PIs before Sysplex PI

    Currently WLM looks for candidate receivers by first examining all the sysplex PIs at a given importance level before moving onto the local PIs at that importance level. But today’s sysplexes tend to be much more heterogenous than originally envis...
    5 days ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Submitted

    Increase the length allowed for profiles in the RCICSRES and WCICSRES classes

    RACF supplies built in definitions for the default CICS security classes.For RCICSRES and WCICSRES the MAXLNTH values are not large enough for the names that CICS could potentially generate. Currently there are two issues: RCICSRES and WCICSRES ...
    6 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

    Add Functionality to access EzNOSQL JSON Documents thru TCP/IP from distributed systems (outside z/OS systems)

    EzNOSQL would be a nice and useful product, when JSON documents on z/OS would be accessable from "outside" z/OS out of the box i.e. thru a JDBC driver and /or open systems python libraries.
    6 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Submitted

    Customize initial parameters

    z/ACS calls modules with various parameters, however for the vendors of the products we know various initial parameters which when used will cause various code paths to be taken. This would allow a greater code coverage of our own products when us...
    10 days ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner 0 Submitted

    Support Port Mapping from Sysplex Distributor Standard Ports to Kubernetes NodePort Services

    Hello IBM, We are running Openshift Cntainer Platform on z/OS and use Sysplex Distributor for load balancing the traffic between worker nodes. Our Container Team is requesting an enhancement to allow SD to receive inbound traffic on standard ports...
    10 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Submitted

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