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SMF/ICSF - Increase input validation for SMF record signing

Defining a TOKENNAME for either RECSIGN or ARECSIGN in the SMFPRMxx member is only validated to be exactly 32-characters long. However, one can activate the member with SET SMF=00 without throwing an error (even there is no associated private/publ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

WORK OF THE RMM WHILE IS IN QUIESCE

When the RMM is put into QUIESCE, something should be enabled so that it does not leave queued the jobs that want to use new tapes and that those that are in flight when they finish and need to do the CLOSE do not stay waiting for the RMM to becom...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Under review

Keep message IKJ56474I USERID OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR NOT AUTHORIZED to be held on the screen

When logging into TSO through TN3270, if the user ID or password is entered incorrectly, message 'IKJ56474I USERID OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR NOT AUTHORIZED' briefly appears on the screen before disappearing after a few seconds. Our company audit...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

When using IFASMFDL for extracting SMF-data, job might end with RC=08-0804 if no data is in the log stream

See also case TS017633432. In brief: we are writing SMF data to logstreams (As recommended by IBM). We are having different LogStreams in order to pre-select the SMF-records. On Log-Stream is for DB2-SMF records in which we collect records 100:102...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Under review

Modify IKJPARS so that the parse service routine obtain storage above the line

DFSMSrmm is not able to load a large defaults table. DFSMSrmm is abending with S878 and in some cases DFSMSrmm can't be restartet and an IPL is needed. See the details in case TS016867492. We have converted a retention file with 13.300 entries to ...
4 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

Enhance the Certificate Management>Delete and Archive Certificate task, such that multiple recovery points are available for the Certificate Management>Work with Archived Certificate>Install task.

Idea raised in response to case TS017583057. Enhance the Certificate Management>Delete and Archive Certificate task, such that multiple recovery points are available for the Certificate Management>Work with Archived Certificate>Install ta...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Under review

Desirable new feature: GROUP revoke inactive days and consequently new user inactivity policy

We have set SETROPTS INACTIVE(60) and this is applicable for all users. However, we have some specific users with the requirement not to be revoked after 60 days but at different than this value. So, Inactivity should be helpful to be defined as g...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

see if it is possible to fix hangs in apf and non apf tso and rexx scripts

TS014956323 Problem has been seen on both z/OS 2.4 and z/OS 2.5 and z/OS 3.1 and with either svc or linkage=system DEQ and takes from about 4 to 15 runs to recreate in batch rexx/uss.The recreation occurs with PGM=IKJEFT1A and we are executing an ...
5 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

Enable sftp to work with z/OS datasets and with Text data

With the introduction of DSFS it is now very possible for users to use sftp to access z/OS datasets however since sftp only supports binary transfers that precludes using sftp for source code or data. Enabling sftp to access z/OS datasets directly...
5 months ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 6 Under review

LE to support volume specification when referencing data sets as files

Allow specification of volume name with file name for services like fopen For example -- to open data set SYS1.PARMLIB member IEAIPL02 on volume D16PK2 as a file specify something like this: "//'SYS1.PARMLIB(IEAIPL02)[D16PK2]'"
3 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Under review

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