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Core Infrastructure

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Add System date and time state to List commands in RACF

We have to submit displays of our security database to auditors. Often the displays are not accepted because they lack SYSTEM, DATE and TIME information in the display.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

zERT Report Export

Under zERT Report panel, provide the ability to export the CSV file directly to either a desktop location (via http or ftp), or to the current z/OS location. A progress monitor would also be helpful during the export operation.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Need a description field for connection rules in NCA

When creating IPSEC or ATTLS rules there is no free form area of us to add information in to put in information for the rule and the title is a limited set of characters.The requirement maps give us some of that but really we need this at the LPAR...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add IKEv2 Message Fragmentation support to IKED

Add support for IKEv2 Message Fragmentation to IKED as described in RFC 7383
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Provide a warning threshold or limit for the number of record locks

A looping application in a development environment can request an excessive number of record locks. This can result in excessive cells in use for the IGWLNHRB Storage Pools and a storage shortage which can terminat and restart the SMSVSAM address ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Functionality already exists

Allow rexx program to insert file tailoring output lines

File tailoring skeletons allow imbedded rexx programs through the use of )REXX and )ENDREXX tags. I would like for those rexx programs to be able to insert new lines of output to the ISPFILE output, without leaving the rexx program. The rexx progr...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

CELQPRLG to support creating MAIN routines

Currently only subroutines are supported, so one must use a high level language that supports creating LP(64) main routines, which in turn requires the language runtime for that language to be initialized, which may be undesirable for certain kind...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Automount and RACF FSACCESS

When we use automount, where the policy creates a new zfs for a userid, in conjunction with RACF FSACCESS, "phantom" directories are created. It would seem more sensible that automount honours FSACCESS before the dataset is created.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Change Default For VSAM Files Definition Extent Constraint Removal To Yes

We experienced a major outage in a number of our critical production systems late last year due to a Db2 partition hitting max extents before it could hit the maximum defined data set size. Db2's space management algorithm was to scan the full dat...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 5 Future consideration

PKI Exit for SCEP Requests

Implement a PKI EXIT function on pre-processing operations in pkiclient.exe before call of SCEPREQ, to turn possible customizations on SCEP Requests.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Future consideration