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Group Connected To Groups

Want to have one group that uses RBAC (Role Based Access control) for the purpose of access control.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

SNA support of Hipersockets

Our customer runs Communication Server on z/Linux to communicate with z/OS VTAM.Now, they connect Communications Server on z/Linux and VTAM on z/OS with OSA-Express card(SNA protocol).But, they hope to connect with Hipersockets, but Hipersockets d...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

Printing incorrect VVDS should show some suitable messages.

My customer encountered that printing incorrect VVDS results in RC=04 without any suitable messages. PAGE 0001 5695-DF175 DFSMSDSS V2R03.0 DATA SET SERVICES 2022.286 09:30 PRINT DATASET(SYS1.VVDS.VWAS901) INDYNAM(WORK03) ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Not under consideration

IXGDELET range including the block in the BLOCKID parameter

Requesting a new option to IXGDELET a range of blocks older than specified in the BLOCKID parameter AND including the block specified in the BLOCKID parameter. Our application has regular cycles of IXGBRWSE READCURSOR and IXGDELET BLOCKS=RANGE to ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SDSF limitation for IEESYSAS started tasks

Implement a customization option to permit SDSF commands DA (Active users) ou ST (Status of jobs) to show as JOBNAME the name of the creating AS (like any system AS, user AS, BPXAS or IEESYSAS) or the name of the child task when started by BPXAS o...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Enable digitally signed SMF record validation for shutdown/IPL

We create daily SMF dump file with digitally signed SMF records. We then validate (SIGVALIDATE) these files with IFASMFDP. When we shutdown/IPL the system we are not able to successfully validate the SMF dump file of that day.We need to be able to...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Not under consideration

SORT/ICETOOL statements for variable length records

Allow the coding of SORT / ICETOOL statements without having to add +4 to every position to account for the variable length RDW. This would require a new SORT option (perhaps VLRDW) to allow for both old and new method. Benefit: Easier to both cod...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under consideration

Server and user authentication using X.509 certificates

As of now it is not possible to authenticate users or servers using X.509 certificates using OpenSSH. We want to be able to authenticate users (coming from Windows) using X.509 certificates.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Not under consideration

Increase PKI Services ?Requestor Field' limitation

To increase PKI ‘Requestor Field' limitation to accept more than 32 characters (email address)
over 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Not under consideration

Add support to Encryption Facility OpenPGP for OpenPGP certificates with public keys to be stored in RACF

Support better security than keys stored in USS. We want to keep our public and private keys in our Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)/RACF. Encryption Facility provides for writing OpenPGP public keys to a USS for or to JAVA keys stores. It does ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration