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Add link encryption capabilitys to coupling express adapters

As of today, coupling express (LR and SR) adapters are not capable of link encryption functionality. The sysplex functionality of logically encrypting CF structures like LIST and CACHE structures is good but does not cover the need to have "everyt...
4 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 1 Submitted

Export configuration in batch

Because we have disaster recovery procedure on server outside the current location of server, we need to export manually the WLM configuration stored on the current coupling facility sysplex to import this saved configuration on the new recovery s...
5 days ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Submitted

Connect command shouldn't have a default owner

Problem When you do connects in RACF and don't specify an owner it will default to the user id of whoever executed the command, this should be changed as it is not secure and can negatively affect uptime. This becomes an issue if a security admini...
1 day ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Ensure ICH408I message is issued for a data set RENAME when RACF denies authorisation.

If a RENAME macro is issued, for example by IEHPROGM, and the current user does not have sufficient access to the target data set, no ICH408I message is issued. Instead I received the following,IGD17061I INSUFFICIENT SECURITY AUTHORIZATION FOR 492...
4 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 0 Submitted

Improvement for z/OS Data Set File System (DSFS)

For installations with a huge number of data sets DSFS should be improved.Currently the UNIX command "find" could lead to thousands of RACF errors for MVS data sets when the DSFS directory is in your search path.In particular DSFS have to do an op...
14 days ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 0 Submitted

Provide a means to search for categories of ICH408I messages

There are a wealth of different ICH408I messages. The different types of these seem to grow with each release. Please provide some extra numeric qualifier so that searching is enabled for specific type of ICH408I.
4 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Fluentd as one of default Docker logging drivers

Currently we have json-file and jornald are the only default logging drivers that zCX supports. It's common to export logs to different analytics platforms what is posible by ussing fluentd container. Sometimes can be problematic to specify fluent...
4 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

Heartbeat health check of OAM to ensure there are no issues

OAM does not put out messages to say it has issues in a number of scenarios causing impact to business due to lockups, memory exhaustion, waiting for response from DB2 etc.
7 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Submitted

Allow a custom subnet mask for zCX OpenShift nodes

Currently, only the default subnet mask 255.255.255.0 can be used for zCX OpenShift nodes. We need to be able to configure a custom subnet mask to fit our network configuration.
13 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

SSHD Support for zVM OS

SSHD support directly in VM would allow for modern tooling to connect and utilise the platform. Version control of config files via GIT for example.
26 days ago in z/VM 1 Submitted

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