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zERT Analyzer - Enhance Query Builder Capabilities

While using the query builder in zERT it does not offer the ability to filter for either 'User ID' or 'Job Name' even those values are reported in the result set. It would be of great benefit if the query would allow to filter already on those two...
12 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CFRM policy editor: support for comments

CFRM policy editor does not support comments. When importing the CFRM policy from a dataset, current available comments in the JCL of the CFRM policy are lost.It would mean that we can't document anything if using the zOSMF CFRM policy editor. ZOS...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

PAV/HyperPAV alias Support

Base devices between subchannel sets, aliases associated with and in the same real subchannel set in the active configuration allows these devices to then be referenced by 4-digit RDEV numbers in various commands which only affect active configura...
about 2 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Improvements deleting variables

In z/OSMF SCA, you can define variables to complete the resources in the "configurable" tab. It would be helpful to have the following options: Remove all variables at once, i.e. return to the initial display with the placeholders for the variable...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Make diagnosing IXC440E easier.

when IXC440E message is received the documentation IXC440E - IBM Documentation is complicated. There are multiple displays required to capture required data: Issue DISPLAY XCF commands to get more information about the stalled group members. Use D...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Basic/Large Format Dataset Encryption min LRECL and Blocksize option

Allow customers the option of bypassing encryption of basic/large format datasets if they do not meet the minimum LRECL requirements
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer must support SMF 119(11)

Currently zOSMF Network Analyzer does only support analyzing the zERT Discovery Records from SMF 119(12). However with the introduction of zERT Policy enforcement there must be the option to analyze the SMF 119(11) records too. It makes not sense ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Deploy an option to suppress warning messages in HCD.

There are warning messages that come out in HCD that are known to be ok, but still spill out a lot of warning messages that are additional things to review. It would be great to have the ability to suppress warning messages in an IODF and those be...
4 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant REST API

We get very often requirements to change the IPSec policy to add/remove IP addresses to the different address groups for IPSec. This is very time consuming as sometimes 10 addresses have to be added, sometime 5 have to be removed and so on. Also, ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Intrusion Latch Detection on z/OS

When a crypto express card encounters an intrusion latch detection error, this error may not be externalized to z/OS.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Future consideration

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