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Intelligent tape devices should provide better mount information

In our modern times, most if not all tape mounts are now managed by intelligent devices, whether virtual tape systems or robotic systems. These external hardware devices are actually computer systems with hardware attached, and as such should be a...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Apply RACF Conditional ACL only when in MFA fallback mode

When Using MFA, RACF conditional access lists should have the option to be applied only when the user is being authenticated in password fallback (PWFALLBACK) mode – in this case, to limit access to a terminal name prefix. (Ross Cooper suggested I...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

MVS REPLY command failure should be visible in the WTOR owner's joblog along with the currently listed REPLY command

If a job or started task sets up a WTOR and a response is given to the WTOR via REPLY command, but fails due to missing RACF authorization then:1. The REPLY command is echoed to the joblog ...2. ... but its failure is not echoed to the joblog This...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Future consideration

Take advantage of DAE to suppress dumps

We encountered a situation where the zFS address space was taking 2C3 abends. The abend would sometimes occur more than once a day. DAE was not suppressing the dumps. Coding of the SDUMPX macro should be changed to take advantage of letting DAE su...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workload Management - limited interaction within sysplex boundaries

Workload Management task interactions with sysplex are limited to the sysplex in which the z/OSMF host system is a member. It would be helpful if the Workload Management info could be updated, installed and activated across all sysplex's from a ce...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

IEBUPDTE Support for VB and LRECL > 80

This utility is limited to 80 bytes, but PDS/PDSE are not limited to 80 bytes, so we can not use it to add members to a PDS/PDSE that exceed the 80 byte limit. IEBUPDTE should support the limit of PDS/PDSE LRECL.IEBUPDTE should support RECFM=VB/VB...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

RACF LISTUSER command to show GROUP connects in alphabetical order

Imagine you are requesting access to a z/OS lpar, and you have a long list of GROUP connects to request. As your access requests are processed, you can go back to the system and issue the RACF LISTUSER command to confirm the GROUP connects are cor...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

z/OS LDAP Support for AT-TLS

z/OS LDAP should either add support for AT-TLS or provide instructions for using LDAP while AT-TLS is active.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

RMF API JSON Support.

It would be nice to get JSON support for RMF APIs. Rightnow it only support XML.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow service to update (add assignees) workflow steps

We need an interface to add additional user or groups to steps of a workflow.(It would be o.k. for us if this information could be provided on workflow creation)To fit with the existing workflow services I recommend a genericPATCH /zosmf/workflow/...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration