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RRSF: Password/passphrase re-synchronization

With the implementation of RRSF, it is possible to synchronize a user's password/passphrase between different RACF databases. Due to various technical reasons, sometimes a user's password/passphrase may get out of sync in such a RRSF environmen...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow Site and Vendor whatis files

With the growth in the use of the z/OS Unix (OMVS) environment there are more non-IBM additions to the set of available commands. The majority of these additional commands come from outside IBM. Many of these commands (one would hope all) have man...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Future consideration

Add better support to IEBCOPY for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

Replace CBRUXSAE OAM security exit with RACF STGADMIN profiles

The CBRUXSAE installation exit provides security authorization checking againstusers performing OSREQ transactions on object data. It is ASM code.We'd like a solution relying on RACF STGADMIN profiles.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Future consideration

Low latency zIIP eligible work running on LPARs without VH, and IIPHONORPRIORITY=YES must receive timely help from GCPs

Customers with low latency zIIP eligible work cannot rely on IIPHONORPRIORITY=YES to timely get help from standard CPs without ensuring that they have at least 1 Vertical High (VH) zIIP
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 3 Not under consideration

Request new function: z/OS ICSF a CCA Rexx/CSFIQF API to display enabled ACPs via the ISPF ICSF panels for each coprocessor.

RFE -- Request new function: z/OS ICSF a CCA Rexx/CSFIQF API to display enabled ACPs via the ISPF ICSF panels for each Crypto co-processors. Need a method via (CCA Rexx - CSFIQF API ?) that we can use on ICSF, other than displaying & copying t...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

Command to display zCX memory SWAP, DATA and ROOT space usage

There is no command to display how much memory the zCX started task is using, or how much space is being used of the ROOT dataset; determining usage of SWAP and DATA is also difficult.This is separate from the within-docker commands to display ind...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Prevent recalling HSM migrated datasets when calling REST to get list of data sets on a system

REST API: List the z/OS data sets on a system recalling HSM migrated datasets and it does not support X-IBM-Migrated-Recall header to prevent this. This causes from time to time big delay and request often is timed out. In any case this behaviour ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

ISPCFIGU - allow user line command table which adds line commands to site line command table

RFE 42654 requested a System wide line command table to be implemented in ISPCFIGU which was implemented in z/OS 2.2. This enables a system programmer to provide system wide edit line commands. But when a user wants to enhance the system line comm...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Health check IBMRRS,RRS_RMDOFFLOADSIZE false exception

Even after changing the logstream LS_SIZE and rebuild the structure, meaning new offload datasets will be created with the new size, the check still gives an exception incorrectly stating that "Multiple offload data sets" might be created on an of...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

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