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Core Infrastructure

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DSFS: Automatic CCSID conversation for selected datasets/members

We'd love a enhancement in DSFS that it could do automatic conversation of datasets/members when they are used with DSFS. For example: dataset.name(member) -> Terminal emulator 1141 for Germany /dsfs/txt/dataset.name/member --> automatically...
4 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Reduce service downtime for sysplex distrubutor as a source address

Problem description: When the CF structure for SD (Sysplex Distrubutor) is rebuild after a failure will the structure be locked for some time. In our case is it around 1 min and 30 sec in production. Every call when the lpar is client will fail wi...
18 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

Control passphrase strength and complexity, just like password strength and complexity is today.

We must enforce complexity rules for passphrase (i.e. : minimal length, pattern, ...etc...), just like we do for password. Some regulatory bodies compel us to do so in Banking industry. The subparameter RULEn of SETROPTS PASSWORD command should ap...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Under review

Have Grafana sign the RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin

Our organization does not allow the installation of Grafana plugins that are not signed as it poses a security risk, and I imagine that other organizations are the same. In order for us to make use of the plugin it needs to get signed by Grafana.
6 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance RACF ENF 79 signalling for grouping class profiles relating to DB2 objects

We found that if someone has successfully executed e.g. a Stored Procedure with access granted via a RACF grouping profile and then you remove their access to that grouping profile alongside relevant RACLIST REFRESH command, they can still execute...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

Enhanced monitoring of VSAM RLS activity using z/OSMF interface

Whenever there is a need to check SMSVSAM health for contention, locks response times and record queues one has to rely upon console commands usually routed to all the LPARs that run RLS workload in order to have a big picture of what is going on....
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

New command to inverse a file

We would like to have a DFSORT utility to easily invert a file, so the records to become columns and the opposite (like matrix inversion). Input example: ABC123 output: A1 B2 C3 Kind regards Konstantinos
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Future consideration

LISTCAT dates should provide dates in ISO8601 format YYYY-MM-DD

LISTCAT output dates (creation, expiration or lbackup) of an entry are only displayed in Julian format. It should be very useful an additional ISO8601 format as well. Kind regards Konstantinos
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Under review

Signed SMF Records - Improvement of the Validation Process with IFASMFDL

Currently one has to follow the below steps to activate and validate signed SMF records (According: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=records-setting-up-using-digitally-signed-smf).The basic steps to set up and use digitally signed SMF r...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration
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Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

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