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Network activity need working prefix

You can use Filters but it is not that fast/easy. I would like to use the columns names. exampel: 'Jobname STCNAME' should filter all STCNAME. 'IPAddr 127.0.01' should filter that IP
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Display machine bundle level with a z/OS operator command

Currently, there is no z/OS operator command to display the MCL bundle level for a z machine.Enhance D M=CPU (or some other MVS command - D IPLINFO or D XCF) to provide this information.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Sync CryptoExpress clock to sysplex timer

Currently the only way to set the clock on CryptoExpress hardware is to use the TKE workstation to manually set the time. This can result in: Discrepancy between different cryptographic hardware, especially when using multiple mainframe footprints...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Future consideration

PHP API and Perl API on EzNoSQL

Add PHP API and Perl API to EzNoSQL to allow more flexibility and integration with mobile and Web applications of EzNoSQL. Not many Web servers or mobile platforms use C. Java is more common. These are the other APIs: C and Java.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Future consideration

DFSort support for non-extended encrypted files

Our company intends to use pervasive encryption to encrypt our mainframe datasets, but DFSort currently does not support non-extended encrypted files. It is crucial that this support is implemented since all our sorting is done through DFSort and ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Planned for future release

New verify option of DSS COPY for PDSE data integrity

Provide new verify option to ADRDSSU COPY function.Our customer encountered data page curruption of the copied PDSE. DSS copy ended RC=00 but some data pages of one PDSE "SYS1.SHASLNKE" were overlayed.Now our customer always verify PDSE using ISRS...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 10 Future consideration

Please modify SDSF RACF calls to class JESSPOOL to use the RACF group(not RACF userid) to validate if a user has access to view/modify output.

This would be useful because users in a group should be able to view /modify all output created by userids in their group. Currently, SDSF only checks the userid of the output and many RACF groups contain many(5-50) userids so it would be very ben...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists

Our internal security group has removed support for 'AuthType Basic'. I have been told that IBM HTTP Server only supports AuthType Basic. We currently have an exception in place, for our software package that relies on IBM HTTP. I believe that IBM HTTP should be update to support other/valid AuthType settings. Please see IBM case # TS011728903. I was mistaken in my thought we were using Websphere.

At the current time, our one application (vendor provided) would not function (with user validation) without AuthType Basic. I could turn off authentication, but that is not a desired option. Our workaround will only be in place temporarily.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / http server 0 Future consideration

z/VM Lowercase login passwords

Due to internal rules, customer needs to use lower case and upper case combinations in the z/VM users logon password. They are aware that it can be done by installing RACF, but they think it is very complex and expensive to install RACF only to ha...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 3 Not under consideration

SETROPTS PRIORITY WHEN RACF DATASHARING

Currently when a SETROPTS REFRESH is sent from a LPAR and it is a member of a sysplex and RACF is configured in datasharing with Sysplex Communication, the REFRESH is executed in all the LPARs (except the one that sent the command) under the *MAST...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration