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TSO/E: Implement Pipes Facility

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1202104946User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE011455Title: TSO/E: Implement Pipes FacilitySubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Will...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / TSO 20 Not under consideration

Remove LNOTES segment from RACF

The LNOTES is virtually unused and irrelevant in the modern business. If we removed it would be easier to create products and APIs around RACF, it would also be less information new-to-z people would have to deal with.
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

RACF validation of external generated JWTs with fully OIDC support

Currently, RACF can only validate JWTs based on the IDTDATA definitions within RACF itself. In times of multi-platform solutions and higher security demands this is no longer adequate. Modern architectures consinsts of at least front ends and mayb...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Binary Optimizer for the Operating System

Since years, there is the ABO available for COBOL. The latest z/OS always supports up to minus two generations of hardware. So after you update a z/OS and a machine, you still can't benefit at all from the latest hardware. The idea is to add a sim...
9 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

RACF Extract API for JWTs (enhancement for ZOS-I-4417)

This is an additon for ZOS-I-4417, but it would also be usefull if it could be provided for the existing JWT validation... With RACF be able to validate JWTs, there should be a service avalable to extract the information out of the JWT after it go...
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Check that RVARY password is regularly changed by administrator

In order to keep systems secure and avoid static unchanged password for RVARY commands it would be nice if we could audit the fact when RVARY password was last changed. In past it was visible that hash in RCVT changed, for security reasons is no l...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

To have parameter SYSSYM set to ALLOW as default instead of DISALLOW.

Today in zOS2.5 we have parameter SYSSYM set to DISALLOW as default for all jobclass in the system. With all the migration that is happening and will happen from JES3 to JES2 customers will need at some point to change this parameter to allow if t...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Not under consideration

Connect command shouldn't have a default owner

Problem When you do connects in RACF and don't specify an owner it will default to the user id of whoever executed the command, this should be changed as it is not secure and can negatively affect uptime. This becomes an issue if a security admini...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

AI System Service MLz setup to be more z/OS-like

Currently, the MLz setup for the z/OS AI Services has to be done with z/OS. There is a lot of input and a lot of customer specific customization that has to be done there (security, AT-TLS and other stuff). That could be very complicated. Back in ...
7 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 1 Not under consideration