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Core Infrastructure

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Increasing Security and Control for FTP JES Interface

Provide mechanisms for disabling and restricting the use of the FTP JES interface.Add a JESINTERFACELEVEL=0 option in configuration file FTP.DATA to prohibit FTP users from interfacing with JES. Allowing access to JES from FTP introduces a securit...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

RACDCERT ADD support of certificates exported with OpenSSL 3.x

Currently, RACF doesn't support the creation or the display of Certificates with multiple SANs. This is a major weakness. As gskkyman is not a valid replacement and the z/OS PKI can't be used, we create our certificates with OpenSSL. By default, O...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Delivered

Outage while ACTIVATE IODF=xx,TEST

While testing an IODF with a very huge amount of changes the lpar stopped. Till that moment we assumed a test of an IODF can't lead into an outage. This may not happen. Please correct that.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 9 Delivered

Software installation: Dataset restore w/o CB.** RACF dataset profile

Today, the use of z/OSMF software management for the installation of z/OS requires, that CB.** RACF data set profiles are defined. Our RACF rules only allow RACF userids with corresponding dataset profiles that are actively used. For a successful ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Monitor SID Cache Utilization on GSKSRVR

Provide SessionID Cache metrics to determine effectiveness of SID Cache in GSKSRVR
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Delivered

Add DATACLAS selection to ZOSMF Software Manager Deployment Configuration of Datasets

In ZOSMF Software Manager - Deployment Dataset Configuration. Allow a DATACLAS field in addition to the STORCLAS field. This will allow for the allocation of NON-SMS EXTENDED FORMAT ZFS files (that are greater than 4GB).
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 4 Delivered

RACF: Logging of successful login

Standards (e.g. PCI-DSS 10.2.5) require that successful login to the system or application must be logged. Today the successful login logging depends on the resource manager, which handles the login. It should be possible to activate the successfu...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Delivered

convert more than just the IBM-1047 to UTF-8

We're really interested in DFSMS CDA and have a lot of use cases. However, more code pages need to be added to the CONVERT option. We need to have support for EBCDIC 278 <=> UTF-8.
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Reuse of address groups in zOSMF Configuration Assistant

As more and more policies can be managed by zOSMF Configuration Assistant it would be very beneficial if the address groups can be re-used in the policies to: Speed up creation of new Policies Prevent duplication of data Simplify Management of add...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Enhanced SETIOS Function to Perform Freeze

Hyperswap verifications with the new SETIOS-function work very well. But this works for Unplanned Hyperswaps only, not for a Freeze.It would be very helpful when a similar command is available for the verification on the Secondary DASD (e.g. "SETI...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 19 Delivered