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Add sudo command into the base install USS security

Integrating sudo like Linux has would improve security by being able to use superuser privileges on a case-by-case basis rather than having all of your commands be superuser authorized. We'd also be able to set restrictions and timeouts in the sud...
9 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Give pyRACF similar resources and priority to ZOAU

With Python gaining popularity on z/OS and a new generation of z/OS System Administrators coming onto the platform with prior Python experience, it is important that crucial subsystems like RACF delivers data in JSON format and gives access to qua...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.

I'm primarily interested in the openssh, specifically ssh-keygen, but all shell/utilities need to be code page tag aware. This is extremely important as some ported tools will create files as ISO8859-1 causing those files to be unusable by some of...
21 days ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Submitted

Remove DES as an option for password encryption for newer releases of RACF

Please can you consider removing DES as an option in RACF in a future release of z/OS & RACF, to force sites to upgrade to KDFAES. I teach a lot of Auditors about Mainframe Security and they are very surprised to learn that DES is still a thin...
4 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Make Point-and-shoot fields uneditable

ISPF Point-and-shoot fields are of great help to ISPF users. They enable the user to conveniently "shoot" commands while being with the cursor in the context of the action. Point-and-shoot fields comes with another great User Setting: Tab to point...
8 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

add a TN3270 configuration option to disable the check for Server name & Certificate name to match

Configurable Option to disable Verify Certificate We have encountered a situation with our TKEs at RBC. We had LPAR site certificates included in the TN3270 ring before and removed thus only TN3270 user certificate is in the keyring. More specific...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 0 Submitted

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 2 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

Media manager interfaces should provide feedback as to whether writes are actually using zHyperWrite or not

The media manager interfaces don't give enough feedback about whether zHyperWrite is working or not. They only tell a caller that a data-set is zHyperWrite enabled, or not, during initial connect to that data-set. zHyperWrite state can easily chan...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Media Manager 1 Under review

Provide consistent easy RCF link from all formats

Provide an easy way to submit reader comments, consistent between the HTML and PDF versions, with adequate instructions. Currently the PDF versions link to a documentation page that does not have an obvious link for reader comments.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Documentation 1 Submitted

zopen utilities as part of standard USS

Make the zopen utilties part of BCP. This way everybody will have it 'on their system' My suggestion is to put all 'that cool stuff' in /zopen There's nothing more to it to be honest ;) You might wanna start with a POC-trial-run in the next ADCD d...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Under review

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