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Enhance RACF so a Passticket Only UserID is possible

Please enhance RACF so that we have a new attribute of let's call it PASSTICKET or PASSTICKETONLY We use passtickets and for security reasons don't want the UserIDs to also have to have a password.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

SSH Enhancements on z/OS

We would like to request SSH enhancements in the area of Authentication and User Mapping, as well as Compatibility features for non-z/OS platforms connecting to z/OS (x509 Certificate Support).
about 6 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Not under consideration

HealthCheck for RACF Class PROGRAM

In RACF-Class PROGRAM there are PROFILEs with MEMBER-Definitions,for example Profile ** with Members (for example) DB2.OLD.VERSION.SDSNLOAD.I would likte to get an automatic health-check of this RACF-Class. Maybe an Extention to IBMRACF,RACF_SENSI...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Remove / prior to 4 digit UCB Addresses on Mount Command

The z/OS Mount command syntax requires a / prior to a 4 digit UCB. The time has come to eliminate this requirement.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Not under consideration

HILITE PLI - End-of-line Comment // support

My programming colleague is using the "//" end of line comment indicator. I think this was an enhancement with the 5.3 release of EPLI:The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. See “Delimiters and operators” on page6. Actual...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Planned for future release

Enhance CEEPIPI to reestablish lost condition handling environment

Language Environment Pre-Initialization Services are used to create a reusable runtime environment (RRE), run multiple run-time environments in one multi-tasking region, etc. CEEPIPI is the Language Environment version of the previous language-spe...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

EDIT-Profile resets CAPS OFF/NUMBER OFF even if PROFILE is LOCKed

ISPF EditorWhen opening an existing Member, LOCKed Profiles with CAPS OFF are temporary changed to CAPS ON if there are no lowercase Characters in file.The same is for NUMBER OFF, it is temporary changed to NUMBER ON STD when Number in the rightmo...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Network Configuration Assistant Install History maintenance

The configuration assistant keeps all the installation history for a stack forever. The only way to reduce the history today is to remove it entirely by copying the stack to a new entity, delete the stack and rename the new entity to the stack nam...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Cert expiry on 119-12

Currently the zERT summary SMF record (type 119 subtype 12) lacks some of the certificate details that are present in the detail record (type 119 subtype 11). I propose that all details collected by the detail record be propagated into the summary...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Workflow editor - Possible to create jobcard .

Be able to define specific jobcard for a jcl step when create a workflow definition file in workflow editor.In the specific jobcard, to be able to use variables as well, like for other jcl.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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