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    Deliver security / integrity / vulnerability notification information in a consistent field delineated format

    Security / integrity and vulnerability notifications may be difficult to obtain, assess, correlate and act upon. Format and delivery mechanisms are obtuse, inconsistent at an industry level or may be missing altogether. Leaving each customer expos...
    11 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Future consideration

    Have the possibility to pass directly from password to passphrase authentication when you need to change your password.

    For upgrade the security, the company decides to switch from password authentication to passphrase authentication . For the moment the RACF administrator removes the password and sets up the passphrase for the UID. But the administrateur have ta s...
    5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Support Compression for zCX-VSAM Files

    We want to compress the data from zCX at runtime to minimize the I/Os and the used space on DASD. For Pervasive Encryption it is recommended to compress data before encryption. For zFS VSAM-LDS Files it is possible to compress by using zfsadm comm...
    9 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration
    155 VOTE

    Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

    System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

    Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

    JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration
    103 VOTE

    RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

    System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

    JES2 Resource Group support regarding Job Output commands

    Currently, it's documented that $POJQ,/RESGROUP=xxx works to purge all job output that is associated with jobs in a JES2 Resource Group. Using this command results in: $HASP003 RC=(82),PO JQ RESGROUP - INVALID FILTER KEYWORD According to the PMR t...
    3 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

    Allow Sysplex Distributor to monitor ATTLS health

    In the event of an ATTLS Group failure, all connections to the system which are secured with ATTLS would fail. Sysplex Distributor would still forward connections to the sick system even when the other destinations are healthy. Sysplex distributor...
    2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Improve the quality of the exit passphrase

    Around the world, requirements are increasing for password length and complexity. Why don't include some rules in the exit ? For Example : Non-trivial password and passphrase of at least 15 characters that must include letters, numbers, special ch...
    2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    z/OSMF - Network Configuration Assistant - Traffic Descriptor smart filtering

    Currently in a Traffic Descriptor the Job Name filter does accept wildcard character as the last character. This works but depending on jobname pattern this can result in a large list of traffic types in a traffic descriptor. If the differentiator...
    4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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