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Update Security Configuration Assistant Plug-In to allow ability to permanently ignore some failures.

If a particular failure will never be changed, this would allow for a "clean" report. This would allow administrators to focus on important failures. A method should also be supplied to examine all excluded failures in case the situation changes.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Preserve JESJCLIN & SYSIN over NJE / OFFLOAD / SECERROR

JES2 would preserve the special datasets JESJCLIN and the generated for SYSIN DD */DATA, when Jobs travel through NJE, OFFLOAD or there are security problems.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Request for change to Management of PKCS11 tokens ICSF panel

We are trying to setup on a z/OS LPAR a client-server platform (e.g. Pcomm client to TN3270 server or browser to HTTP server) fully compliant with FIPS 140-2 requirements. To accomplish this task, all TCP/IP AT-TLS policies, security levels and ci...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

DFSMS does NOT populate S42AMZRB and S42AMZWB

DFSMS does NOT populate S42AMZRB and S42AMZWB in SMF_42 subtype 6 record in our SMF data That is the reason why TDS displays them as 0.0. This is NOT a TDS error.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

Option to report silent exception handling in LE

During some performance analysis we discovered in CICS trace a huge amount of S0CA - decimal overflow - interrupts caught and recovered by Language Environment. These were caused by a simple ADD statement in a cobol program which runs in an ILC en...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

NFS man pages missing

The following NFS man pages missing: crnl2nl, mvslogin, mvslogout, mvs2os2, nfsstat, nl2crnl, os22mvs, showattr, showmount
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Not under consideration

Populate STORGRP ACS variable during Class Transition

When doing a DFHSM Class Transition, environment SPMGCLTR, supply the Storage Group that the dataset currently resides in to the ACS logic most likely in the &STORGRP variable
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

Record number of ping requests and responses for TCPIP (By interface), as a network debugging aid

I've spend days trying to configure IP V6 and z/OS, (also with 2 TCP images on one LPAR). It has been very hard to see if traffic has got to z/OS, and if the reply came back. With midrange I can use Wireshark. The equivalent packet trace on z/OS i...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide NOTERMUACC Functionality Equivalent for SERVAUTH

Please look to provide a functional equivalent of the NOTERMUACC Parameter on UserIDs/Groups for the SERVAUTH class, specifically NETACCESS in particular. This could potentially be achieved by expanding the NOTERMUACC Parameter to cover SERVAUTH c...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow MSGCLASS to be overriden

The message class for z/OS Unix is class A. This is a print class for us and listings are being printed we don't want to print. From my experience Class A is a common print class.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

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