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RACF batch utility to cleanup expired certificates

To Develop a RACF utility to cleanup/delete expired certificates in the RACF database with parameters specifying the expiration date & older.The date parameter specification/s can be a (-) minus 365 days from the current date. Just to elaborat...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Distributed Identity Mapping Support for JWT Token Subject

As of today, when using JWT Token with RACF, the subject is documented to be required to be the RACF Userid. As such the RACF userid must be known to the creator of the JWT Token.RACF JWT support should be enhanced to allow to send a users X.500 D...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Support for RACF federation with external IdP (using JWTs for authentication)

We are establishing the use of JWTs for authentication and authorization purposes. The idea is to set up an identity provider (IdP) in our internal network. In order for z/OS applications to be able to accept and acquire JWT tokens there is a need...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Use of System Symbolics on Library names in the Program Class

Properly maintaining the Libraries listed as ADDMEMs in the PROGRAM class can be quite cumbersome when LINKLIST changes are made in the environment. Ensuring that the libraries are current is a foundation of using program level security to protect...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Eliminate IEBCOPY Restriction: Inability/Prohibition to COPY RECFM=FB to VB or Vice Versa

IBM publication "z/OS MVS System Messages Volume 7 (IEB -IEE) Version 2 Release 2", SA38-0674-05, p. 30, in message IEB127I, states that "IEBCOPY can not copy from fixed-length record format to variable-length record format or the reverse." Moreov...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

Any plans to lift the restriction on 32K files?

The bank would like to process data records larger than 32K . One of our issues is the requirement to unload/sort/reload files which possibly contain these large records. In the near future, we will be shipping code that allows our customers to re...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Future consideration

IBM z/OSMF REST API support user token authentication

Currently z/OSMF REST API support the following ways of authentication: -Basic authentication -Certificate authentication -Web token authentication We'd like to have user token or private key authentication supported, such that users don't need to...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF LMMLIST to support PDSE Member Generations

When listing a PDSE with member generations include the base member *and* all generations, both the abolute and relative generations. Will need to include when the base member has been deleted by TSO DELETE leaving the newest generation as an orph...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF LMMDEL to support PDSE Member Generations

If use on a member generations then just delete that generation. If use on generation 0 (base member) then delete the base member and *all* generations.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

DFSMS RESTORE

Solve the dump and abend involving CATALOG for DFDSS restore where SMS SG is not found. See TS005186210 and TS005186373.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration