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Enhance authentication APIs to support returning Identity tokens and accepting them for authentication

RACF recently (z/OS v2R4 and PTF'ed back to z/OS v2R2) added the ability for RACF to return identity tokens which are actually JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and to be able to use them in lieu of a password for authentication. Can APIs, such as __passwd()...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

PDMD1202-508 XCF Buffer management

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: jes.jessenSubmitters Company: DMdata PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PDMD1202-508 XCF Buffer managementHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed Status: Session: Requirement...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Future consideration

PCIT0307-1028 Prevent Corruption to PDSEs

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: william.pape@citigroup.comSubmitters Company: Citigroup PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PCIT0307-1028 Prevent Corruption to PDSEsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed St...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 3 Future consideration

Provide a method/utility to validate Group Associations in a load library between modules and aliases.

In order to proactively prevent incidents during production operations, the ability to proactively scan and validate the load module/alias relationships would be a huge improvement over the current situation. Currently, correcting this error is on...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Not under consideration

Provide an override for message IGW01559E when using COPYGROUP to copy an Executable module and it's Alias into a target load library.

In certain circumstance when copying an executable module and its alias into an existing load module with the Replace modifier, error message IGW01559E is issued. However, the situation described by the error message does not apply. The Alias bein...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Add mount option to perform ZFS file system integrity check at mount time

When coming up for the first time in DR, we have a request from one of our teams to be able to run a file system integrity check to look for any ZFS corruption.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF workflow granularity for DELETE

It used to be that only the owner of a workflow could delete it. Now it is anyone who has access to <saf-prefix>.ZOSMF.WORKFLOW.ADMIN Recommend that perhaps by making the workflow Restricted or Private also means that it cannot be deleted ex...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

New HCD function to define multiple CU's in one operation

When adding new DASD subsystems, many of the CU's required by that subsystem have identical attributes (switch.port, CHPID.link address, CPU.LCSS connections, etc.) except for the CU name and CU address. It would be a great time saver if there was...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / HCD 2 Future consideration

raise severity of message IQP041I

message IQP041I should be issued with severity of WARNING or ERROR. It indicates that PCIE support is NOT available. The system will come up regardllessly and message IQP041I is the only indication of the degradation.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Future consideration

LDAP Debug tracing should externalize negative SQL return codes

LDAP debug tracing does not externalize SQL error messages when using TDBM with DB2. This means that customers may need to recreate an issue twice, which may not be possible, in order to receive the SQL return code if the LDAP return code is not s...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

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