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Core Infrastructure

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zERT Analyzer - Allow for inverted filters for TCP/EE Endpoints

Currently the selected filters for the TCP or EE Endpoints do only allow to use include filters. However, I want to specifically exclude a Server and Client address range, which is currently notpossible. Hence, the plugin shall support the option ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

JES2 $POLICY DISPLAY enhancement

$POLICY DISPLAY currently only shows installed JES2 policies and whether they are enabled or not. To keep the overview of all policies, there should be some enhancements made on this: Include the POLICYLIB from which the policy was loaded Include ...
6 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

ZOWE User Redbook

So many questions in Zowe Slack! A user-friendly Redbook for user-level Zowe WIBNI
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration
118 VOTE

Add ability for RACDCERT to handle multiple subject alternative names

Currently, RACDCERT list will only show the first altname for a certificate. Certificates can often have many other altnames, and that information can be difficult to obtain. Also, RACDCERT can only generate certificates with one altname, when man...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 11 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Improve handling of variables

Remove current restrictions: - Allow for "." in variable values - this is useful to replace values e.g. for dataset names which may consist of one or more qualifiers - Replace the same variable name in any pattern, even if the the position / numbe...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Signed SMF Records - Validation must be possible with any Token name (holding the pubic key)

We are using SMF dual signature (RECSIGN and ARECSIGN) which works as expected. However, we have a problem with the validation of the records.We have a specific naming pattern assigned to our Tokens (as referenced in SMFPRMxx) member. All our syst...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP comply with AUTH by rfc4954

Need to include the AUTH command on CSSMTP component on zOS TCPIP and zVM TCPIP in order to comply with the rfc4954
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 12 Future consideration

RACF REST API

It would be really useful if RACF or z/OSMF provided an optional extension of sorts where you could check if profiles, users, and so on exists in RACF as well as get general information about the security setup either through a REST API and/or a P...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Externalising the ZFS ucat Automount allocation error’s in SYSLOG.

A change is needed for the 'UCAT' option of the 'ALLOCUSER' parm in automount. A error message should be externalized to SYSLOG when the creation of the end users zfs fails because there is no ALIAS in the master catalog. Currently the only way to...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

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