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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...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 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).
over 6 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Not under consideration

print HOLDDATA for SMP/E RESTORE Command

It should be helpful, if you print the HOLDDATA on the SMP/E RESTORE Command.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Supply z/ERT code as open-source

z/ert is only available for SMF 119 subtype 12.I would like to use the idea of z/ERT to check the other SMF 119 records. Use a z/ERT like program to retrieve certain connection information ex. Subtype 3 or Subtype 22 If the source code would be pr...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

New Security Type for HTTP and OCSP in System SSL

With enabled Certificate revocation status checking in ATTLS, system SLL offers 3 different security types for HTTP and OSCP (RevocationSecurityLevel = Low, Medium or High) LowCertificate validation does not fail if the OCSP responder or HTTP serv...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit custom hilities

Allow ISPF EDIT users to create a customize scheme for highlighting lines and text within EDIT. This would include: - Comments (entire line or in-line) - Keywords (allow for up to 4 different colors) - Punctuations (comma, semi-colon, etc) - Block...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 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

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...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

DSS BUILDSA support for CD/DVD.

We have z/OS 1.12 and z/OS 1.13 and just migrated from old standalone 3490 tapes to IBM tape library TS3500 using 4tbyte tapes. We are getting ready to build our DFSMSdss Stand-Alone restore and was looking for alternative options to store the IPL...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration

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