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Core Infrastructure

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Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

z/OSMF can generate and validate JWTs, but the JWTs are only valid with z/OSMF itself. If z/OSMF could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Create New SMF Record subtype for ACEECHK Warnings

When enabling ACEECHK class in RACF to detect ACEE modification detection events, only IRR421I is issued to the syslog. This request is to have a SMF80 subtype record created to log these events so they can be easily researched among recent or arc...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide common APIs in support of PDSE Member Generations - Part 2

See https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3783 for part 1. Given that PDSE member generations are supported by some, and growing, IBM elements, it only seems reasonable to make it easy. Thus I'm rating this IDEA as...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Future consideration

Support for CCM algorithm in SystemSSL

For TLS1.3 there are 5 official supported ciphers: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_SHA256 And zOS SystemSSL does not support:TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_SH...
10 months ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

RACF RACDCERT should support PDS(E) and zFS as well as sequential data sets

RACDCERT ADD, CHECKCERT, GENREQ etc. require a unique sequential dataset. Usability would be improved if RACF supported a PDS or PDSE member, or even a zFE file.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

provide Display SHCDS command with results that go to SYSLOG for automation.

SHCDS commands work both in batch and in the TSO/E foreground, but the output isn't available in SYSLOG. Automation around SMSVSAM/RLS issues would be easier if we could drive standard z/os commands such as /D SHCDS xxx and have output go to SYSLOG.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 4 Future consideration

Utilization information of the AI accelerator

Similar to CPACF there should be some monitoring function available to observe the physical utilization of the AI accelerator. CPACF offers at least a counter of instruction calls which is visible via SMF
12 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Functionality already exists

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant import function

The z/OS AI Services workflow creates a flat file with the AT-TLS policy. We have no way of importing that file into z/OSMF NCA without entering all the information manually. We need the ability to import that file into z/OSMF NCA.
12 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Tape volume output on UIM should contains DSNAME of dumped files

I use UIM exit to keep some information during a DFDSS DUMP function. During DUMP process, on UIM exit, i can have only information about the ddname and volser where the DUMP file created by dfdss resides. Now, with UIM exit there is no way to hav...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

Use of a filtlist in the exclude statement

We would like to be able to use a filltlist in the exclude statement of another filllist. Often we have a long list of datasets that are allocated with custom constructs. So that the general filtlist does not unintentionally take effect, we also e...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration