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z/OS

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Log RACF keyring and certificate usage to enable proper validation and auditing

Determining whether a RACF keyring or any RACF certificate is still in use by an application (e.g., started task, batch job, etc.) is a very challenging task. Neither RACF nor other components like zERT generate SMF records that capture the usage ...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Add an Option to enable multi thread when using GDKUTIL

We are challenged to increase the transfer speed using GDKUTIL, we try to play with the ChunkSize with no big improvement, the main issue is that GDKUTIL is mono thread. Can you add the ability to use multi thread in CDA ?
18 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

z/OS resolver should comply with the requirement in RFC 1034 to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names

RFC 1034 requires to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names. Based on a recent incident that we experienced, it seems that the z/OS resolver does not do this. We are requesting the z/OS resolver to comply wit...
9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Support Compression for zCX-VSAM Files

We want to compress the data from zCX at runtime to minimize the I/Os and the used space on DASD. For Pervasive Encryption it is recommended to compress data before encryption. For zFS VSAM-LDS Files it is possible to compress by using zfsadm comm...
4 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Update receive from dataset

Some IBM cases we get asked to verify or test a ++APAR. We can already "automatically" retrieve this ++APAR from ecurep, but doing a SMP/E receive still needs to be done "manually" with a batchjob to then move to z/OSMF Software Update to apply th...
17 days ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

SMF80 record to include client IP address independent of application

z/OS is the most valuable platform in kind of security and auditing. In times of Zero Trust it must be possible to see the identiy and source of a login by a client. Currently, you've to check wich application was used to login to z/OS to find the...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Deliver security / integrity / vulnerability notification information in a consistent field delineated format

Security / integrity and vulnerability notifications may be difficult to obtain, assess, correlate and act upon. Format and delivery mechanisms are obtuse, inconsistent at an industry level or may be missing altogether. Leaving each customer expos...
6 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Future consideration

Automate "AI Powered Workload Management" Training

From time to time, new training must be initiated for “AI Powered Workload Management”. At present, this training must be initiated manually. We would like to have a way to trigger this training automatically using an automation tool. The result o...
3 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Future consideration

Support recalling migrated datasets in z/OSMF desktop data set list

This feature would increase the usability of z/OSMF desktop data set list.
20 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 10 Future consideration