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RTM fencing storage for CANCEL command per TS014858949

Per TS014858949, we are requesting RTM fencing off a piece of storage to be able to issue the CANCEL command when memory is an issue. This sounds practical and safe to implement, and we could benefit from such an improvement.
9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

sudo incidents should be reported

If a user, that is not in the sudo group tries to issue a sudo it looks like this: user@server:~$ sudo mkdir /test[sudo] password for user:user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. But as I was told in case TS004442144 this ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Enhance IFASMFDP to use efficient buffering to significantly reduce job elapsed time

All users would benefit in their SMF daily jobstreams by being able to quickly and efficiently process the Hundreds of Millions of records in a short time span.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

bpxwunix login should mirror actual omvs/ssh login

bpxwunix login processing should mirror a true login via ssh or TSO OMVS - something it does not do today. Any scripts that are invoked from within the /etc/profile, /u/userid/.profile (or .bashrc ...) that set environment variables fail to set th...
6 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

The access control check for services, keys or cryptoz resources should be postponed until after the security product has initialized.

We've changed our ICSF startup to an 'early startup' by setting system parameters ICSFPROC=ICSF and ICSF=xx. We're now noticing the following messages during startup that weren't there before : CSFM012I NO ACCESS CONTROL AVAILABLE FOR CRYPTOZ RESO...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

REST-API to IBM zERT Network Analyzer

Expose the IBM zERT Network Analyzer plugin to RESTful API in order to automate some "manual" work.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Provide config option to IBM LDAP to allow suppression of ' ICH408I, IRR013I ' Logon Error Msgs from its JESLOG and LPAR SYSLOG.

We recently converted from Broadcom CA-LDAP to IBM LDAP (LDAPSRV). Both accessing a RACF database. We have '.net' web service validations coming in for userid / pswd. With IBM LDAP, we're now seeing dozens of ICH408I, IRR013I Logon error messages ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Submitted

zERT plugin to use Certificate for Authentication

As you know to connect to Db2 for zERT plugin we had to provide the ID / PASSWORD in clear text inside z/OSMF to get it connected initially but as we move along the solution to production environment (UTPLEX ) providing a password for a batchid is...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Create ISPF Panel (User Interface) for Web Enablement Toolkit

Create a simple ISPF Panels (User Interface) for Web toolkit JSON API's. This helps customers to play with JSON data without writing a separate program to use our api's to parse the JSON data. Example: User can just provide Sequential file as inpu...
4 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Not under consideration

RACF: Establish a Permission Create Date

This idea goes along with ZSECURE-I-566. The zSecure suite has several toolsets to cleanup the RACF DB. One area of cleanup is unused/inactive permissions. Access Monitor does track when a permission has been used and provides a tool to remove the...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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