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Core Infrastructure

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Add more specific archiving policies or workflows

By creating archiving concepts for configuration items, a viable archiving policy is mandatory. Today you have to choose between retention days (x)or a specified number of copies to keep. This forces the user to choose between two different types ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Extension of the audit feature to cover individual content and download

Auditing is an important feature of IBM Change Tracker. Today, audits logs can be displayed manually by the Change Tracker Auditor. The audit information will be displayed by selecting menu icon on the corresponding dataset and click the “View Aud...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Dataset Groups with extended user profile specific filter possibilities

As of today, IBM Change Tracker has no grouping or categorization capability. By adding more and more datasets of different teams or departments to change tracker control, the list of managed datasets may grow a lot and become very confusing. Also...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Provide Change Tracker Option to Force Comments When a Change is Made

Customers spend far too much time trying to figure out WHY a particular change was made weeks, months, or years ago. And that problem will only grow as more people head into retirement. It would be great if Change Tracker provided an option for th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Provide option to specify time zone for all z/OSMF logs

Provide a configuration parameter to set the time zone so that the time in the IZUG0.log and many other logs are in sync with the time in many other software and SYSLOG.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Mixedcase option

The Open Source UNIX standard is to use case sensitivity. However, it would improve z/OS OpenSSH usability if group names were treated without case sensitivity (similar to how user names are treated) when processing directives such as AllowGroups ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

Change vm.max_map_count on zCX Kernel

To allow running a cluster of ELK (ElasticSearch) containers in a zCX configuration with SWARM, it is necessary to adjust the vm.max_map_count parameter in /etc/sysctl.conf from 65530 to 262144 on zCX Linux system. Without this adjustment, when st...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to view security environment of every address space in System.

Need utility to view security environment of address spaces. This should include as a MINIMUM the RACF user assigned to the address space.However, other items such as the readable items in the ACEE, atrributes (SPECIAL, OPERATIONS and so on), POE,...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

zERT - Simple data import

With the current import UI for zERT one must specify all possible Datasets manually. If you have many Datasets it is very cumbersome to add all of them. Allow generic naming's to import for example.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Future consideration

ISPF Edit highlighting for R

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for the R language.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release