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Migrate to z/OSMF Deployment

Today, our shop already performs a form of deployment that isn't very conducive to migrating to utilizing z/OSMF deployments. This is the current maintenance deployment process that is utilized: Maintenance Libraries (MAINT. HLQ & CSI-tlibs-dl...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Not under consideration

Allow Auditing by RACF Group

Allow auditing by RACF group. I need to audit accesses made by a specific RACF group.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks Currently this is not supported as outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.icha700/spfgac.htm, but would lead to expanded use of GLOBAL entries to standard...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

RACF R_ticketserv callable service should allow PTKTDATA profiles qualified with group and/or userid

Currently the PTKTDATA profile provided to R_ticketserv is limited to a 1-8 characters application name. Extending this to allow profile names of the form application.group.user would allow more granularity to control who can use passickets for a ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

IDC3009I rc30 rsn34 in moving VOLCAT

My customer encounters MSGADR497E as below while moving a VOLCAT.ADR497E (001)-CATLG(04), A CATALOG ERROR OCCURRED WHILE DEFINING USER CATALOG SYS1.VOLCAT.VGENERAL.T1406145.T3249100. RETURN CODE IS 030, REASON CODE IS EM-034 But IDC3009I rc30 rsn3...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Not under consideration

Allow greater flexibility in Certificate Name Filters

The Certificate Name Filters available under RACF today are very rigid in their matching process. As a short-hand, essentially one can consider the name filter as an exact search string match that the certificate subject must contain exactly. This...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands.

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands. Restrict/qualify the type of commands that can be sent across environment instead of existing all or nothing approach.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Provide Limit on SDSF JES2 Commands

Currently a SDSF user can submit any number of commands with SDSF in the BLOCK Command process. JES2 can hang if too many $P or $T commands are entered.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Create a spreadsheet dur SMF 113

In an old version of RMF under the Windows application there is an IBM RMF Performance Management application. Under this application there was the HIS and CSV Reporting which analyzed the SMF 113. It seems that IBM with the new versions, IBM deci...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Not under consideration

bcpii error enhancment on group cap value

I was trying to change a group cap and was on an LPAR that was not in the group. Instead of getting a bad data return code or something meaningful I got: REXXHostRc = 0 rc = 101 DiagArea.Diag_Index = 0 DiagArea.Diag_Key = 146 DiagArea.Diag_Actual ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration