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The warning message should be issued for new datasets as well, not just for existing datasets.

It would be advisable to extend the dataset profile warning to dataset allocation as well, rather than limiting it only to access and delete operations. Currently, notifications in the syslog and to the user are generated only for these latter cas...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

IZUFPROC Abend S222 and S013E Logrec Entries

S222 abends are generally expected when the RESTFiles requests have finished their processing. When a request first arrives, REST Files creates a TSO Address Space to handle the request, which remains available after use so that subsequent request...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

DSFS support for GDGs

It would be very useful if DSFS would also support GDGs. We already exploit DSFS with ssh transfer, but missing GDG support is a road-blocker.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Built-in z/OS Unix package manager

z/OS Unix is slowly becoming more widely used and relevant with technologies like Python, GO, Zowe Explorer, Zowe Desktop and so on. Installs via pax are becoming more common and a new generation of systems programmers are coming in that need to i...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / General 3 Future consideration

RACF validation of external generated JWTs with fully OIDC support

Currently, RACF can only validate JWTs based on the IDTDATA definitions within RACF itself. In times of multi-platform solutions and higher security demands this is no longer adequate. Modern architectures consinsts of at least front ends and mayb...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under 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

Automatic Binary Optimizer for the Operating System

Since years, there is the ABO available for COBOL. The latest z/OS always supports up to minus two generations of hardware. So after you update a z/OS and a machine, you still can't benefit at all from the latest hardware. The idea is to add a sim...
9 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

RACF Extract API for JWTs (enhancement for ZOS-I-4417)

This is an additon for ZOS-I-4417, but it would also be usefull if it could be provided for the existing JWT validation... With RACF be able to validate JWTs, there should be a service avalable to extract the information out of the JWT after it go...
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration