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Update system security query to include FTP and SMTP

Update the COMPEXTR tool to report on whether TLS is in use for FTP and SMTP servers.
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Support ALTLIB settings for % REXX execs

The current REXX exec support only supports placement in SYSEXEC or SYSPROC. This makes writing/debugging row processing EXECs difficult, as some shops may not allow write access to libraries in the concatenation. The TSO ALTLIB command is the int...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Add policy export option (reconstruct JSON)

Policy sources, like all sources, can be lost over time. Providing an export feature provides two functions: recreating lost source, but it also provides a audit capability to see if the current source matches what is being used at this moment in ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Retain policy source with internal policy object, add to $DPOLICY information

Retaining the source data set & member information for a policy provides history for problem resolution and disaster recovery. It should be displayed on a $DPOLICY (could be a ,LONG) option.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Concatenating AUTOIPL members

We would like to be able to have DIAGnn members, that only contain MVS (in the AutoIPL policy). We'd like to have the ability to change the MVS address, but leave the existing SADMP information intact. For example DIAGAA contains: AUTOIPL SADMP(7D...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Forward zVM Data to zAware

Forward zVM logs to zAware
about 7 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Automattic inclusion of all CA certs to a keyring

In the case where you do not need a personal certificate on your keyring a Virtual keyrings works well. However if you have two way authentication the Virtual keyring is not useful in this case since it requires a personal certificate attached to ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

DIRMAINT CLONEDisk for mode and PSW

By using the clonedisk command I remark that the default mode and passwords are not reconducted from the source rdev. The default is "nothing" even if the source is R or RR. I don't see a easy way to do a cross reference to apply the good source m...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

LDAP Debug tracing should externalize negative SQL return codes

LDAP debug tracing does not externalize SQL error messages when using TDBM with DB2. This means that customers may need to recreate an issue twice, which may not be possible, in order to receive the SQL return code if the LDAP return code is not s...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Add a 'syntax check' function to POLICY AGENT to check syntax of policy files.

We like to have command to enable Policy Agent to do a syntax check that simulates loading a new config and syntax checking it, without impacting the current running config. Much like the TCPIP syntax check for profiles. We have a process currentl...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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