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Allow the LASTCOPY of Copypool backup to expire

Currently, DFHSM will not "EXPIRE" the last copy of a Copypool backup. It flags the tapes as EXPIRE but does not truly expire the tapes. Manual commands must be executed in order to truly expire the backup tapes of the last copy of a copypool.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

More granular setup of healthcheck RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES

Healthcheck RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES covers a lot of different resources. If one of the checks fails the whole check fails. To prevent false-postive checks on this healthcheck the only option is to deactivate the healthcheck as a whole. It would b...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Script execution entries.

It would be helpful to identify what scripts have executed in OMVS. Helps to resolve issue wrt to sript execution or failures chekcing.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Collect Client Signature Algorithms with z/ERT

At the moment there is no way - besides collecting traces (AT-TLS, SystemSSL, Packettrace) to gather information about signature (hash) algorithms on TLS connections. We would like to use z/ERT to collect data from the client hello signature algor...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IKED joblog

It would be immensely helpful in a troubleshooting situation to have timestamps in the job log of the IKE daemon.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Minimize risk of odd input in HMC settings

Defined Capacity or Group Capacity is changed on a regular basis. To minimize the risk of odd input, the new value should be checked against the old value.In case the difference is more than 50%, an appropriate warning should be displayed.
about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.

Hello, z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

LE storage report STACK64 option new feature

The Maximum used by all concurrent threads is to count active thread number which is counted after thread initialization before thread termination and could handle the workload. We need one thread number statistics value align with the stack lifet...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Logon-ability with a Business Role

Definition of a Member-Class, the profiles are the name of the Business-Role, the members are group-names that represent different access-rights.Example:Profile: RACF-SystemadministratorMember:#TSOBASE Group for TSO-Basic-Rights#SDSF001 Group for ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

Make ICHRIX02 Dynamic exit or create new dynamic exit with same function

Submitted By: 3100012R4K #59Submitted Date: 2016-06-15, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

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