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Core Infrastructure

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support workstation file names in editor macro statements

The ISPF editor already allows editing of workstation files, by specifying the file name on the WSFN parameter of the EDIT service of ISPF. I would like a workstation file name to be a valid when already within the editor, by making it a valid par...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

SMF utility IFASMFDL could use some improvement when ARCHIVING minimal logstream data.

The customer would like the zOS SMF utility IFASMFDL changed to be more tolerant to being run back to back with the ARCHIVE option. This currently can cause the customer's job step to end with RC=8 and misleading message IFA832I INVALID PARAMETER ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Not under consideration

IRRSMO00 support to fully delete GROUPs

I need the R_SecMgtOper (IRRSMO00) support to a delete groups even when there are subgroups present and/or users connected to the group. This support must be ESM agnostic such that we can expect ACF2 and TSS to implement it as well. The preferred ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

LDAP zOS - Rewrite Engine

Implement a plugin to "ITDS for z/OS" with Rewrite Engine Functionality, like available in OpenLDAP overlay "slapo-rwm". This implementation will permit LDAP server rewrite bad queries, reducing the processing time on backend DB2. For more informa...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 3 Not under consideration

Improve actions in cloud provisioning template

I want to display more information when user invokes an action on software service instance before user click OK button to proceed. (see screenshot below) 1) currently <instructions> tag and <workflow> tag cannot be together under <...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF RESTful API for initial dump analysis feature

Dear, Our customer ICBC learned that we've delivered the initial dump analysis feature in z/OSMF incident log plugin. Then they request us to provide one RESTful API for this feature. Thanks!
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS OMPROUTE OSPF support for LSA type 7

Some sort of support required for LSA type 7 when dealing with Cisco ACI fabric networking. Our OSPF implementation with VIPA allows our systems to move between sites seamlessly but with the new ACI fabric we can't define every host as "totally st...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

RACF option on ID to count password violation with UNIQUE violations only

RACF ID to have option on only counting password violations with unique violations for purpose of suspending Userid.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

Add TCPIP LOGSTRING Information for RACINIT NetAccess Authorization Checks

Add TCPIP LOGSTRING Information for RACINIT NetAccess Authorization Checks. Currently the NetAccess RACINIT checks don't show the IP address in the TCPIP Logstring information which is currently working as designed based on conversations with z/OS...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

DFSORT diagnostic messages: suggested enhancements

I have been encouraging the use of DFSORT/ICETOOL in our shop. We have found 3 diagnostic messages which currently provide too little information for easy problem diagnosis. We would like to see these messages enhanced to contain additional diagno...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration