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Core Infrastructure

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Enhancement to RACF to notify when there is a prolonged contention on critical RACF resources

We have experienced a prolonged Security Manager resources contention situation where the critical security manager resource is lockup by a low priority task while there is a higher priority task entered a spin loop and consumed all the CPUs in th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

To allow configured the parameter "revoked after unsuccessful password attempts" in the RACF user profile. Actually it is only possible as a generic rule for all the users through the SETROPTS PASSWORD(REVOKE(d)) command

To avoid a DoS (Deny of Service) due a service user revoked because a wrong use of the password causing impact in the applications & services using it.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

zERT - Match the least common denominator of a rule

With the current setup of Reusable Rules that combines a combination of Traffic Descriptor Data Endpoints TLS or SSH version Protection Characteristics It is required that all of the specifics match to trigger the required action. This beha...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zERT SMF import from tape dataset

Currently, zERT can import SMF119 record only from DASD.All our SMF dumps are migrated to tape dataset after a couple of days later.We have to run JOB to copy tape SMF data to DASD then import into zERT.It will be helpful if we can import tape SMF...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Restore a pre allocated file and change the mgmgtclas

During restore of a file, if i want to change the mgmtclas, i need to delete the file to have the wanted mgmtclas by sysin DSS job (keyword mgmtclas). If the file already exist, i code REPLACE keyword but the mgmtclass is unchanged, MGMTCLAS remai...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

When TCPIP stack encountered outbound errors which should produce alert messages for user.

This idea is related to IBM support case TS010912081 that the customer HKEX thought TCPIP should produce alert messages for user when it is encountering outbound type errors.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF notifications should support the use of HTTP - Proxy

We get the following error, when we try to use the z/OSMF - notifications - service: The connection to the host "https://ibm-zevent.mybluemix.net/messages" failed in push service "IBM Bluemix" . In our production environment it is not possible for...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the IPSEC command to delete a shadow tunnel

We hit an issue where the main SWSA tunnel came down but one of the shadow tunnels remained active and thus caused our server on that host to become unresponsive. We had no way of removing the shadow tunnel to resume our workload on that LPAR and ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Network activity need working prefix

You can use Filters but it is not that fast/easy. I would like to use the columns names. exampel: 'Jobname STCNAME' should filter all STCNAME. 'IPAddr 127.0.01' should filter that IP
6 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Uncontrolled environment after accessing OMVS

After accessing OMVS under TSO we are getting an uncontrolled environment and is necessary to logoff/logon in order tho have again a controlled environment. We received the following message if we try to access any TSO application that requires a ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration