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Add OpenSSH parameter to control whether RACF checks are made by the TERMINAL or SERVAUTH class

Please add a parameter to control whether RACF checks are made by the TERMINAL or SERVAUTH classes, such as the PORTOFENTRY4 parameter for FTP. Per PMR23901,7TD,000 discussion if a remote IP address is covered at all in ANY NETACCESS statement the...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 1 Future consideration

Export/Import a VM fron one cluster to another cluster

Useful to move a workload from one cluster (maybe old) to another cluster (maybe new)
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Copy/Paste enablemnet for Remote console access KVM

Will nice to have the copy and past feature Remote console access KVM in CIC. Since this kind of console is used in case of problem/issue many time some solution can be found on manual or forum, and the solution commanda could be many and very lon...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Availability of Cryptographic Services

When ICSF is started it will check the Master Key Verification Patterns(MKVP) in the header records of the CKDS and PKDS. When an MKVP is found then a check is made to see if that Master Key is found in the coprocessors. If it is found and it matc...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Identify top users in BPXI039I message

The BPXI039I message identifies the resource shortage, but there is no easy way to identify the which user(s) are contributing to the shortage. In PMR#84352,L6Q,000 - the resource was MAXMMAPAREA -- our normal high water mark is ~4,000, but all of...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

zCX Support combined LFAREA usage (2G/1M) if not enough LFAREA is available within one type

Currently, zCX supports the use of LFAREA. This reduces the overhead for TLB and increases performance for zCX. If zCX is configured to use LFAREA and there is not enough LFAREA available within one range (2GB, 1MB) then zCX falls back to 4K what ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

IBM z/OSMF REST API support user token authentication

Currently z/OSMF REST API support the following ways of authentication: -Basic authentication -Certificate authentication -Web token authentication We'd like to have user token or private key authentication supported, such that users don't need to...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Filemode HSM - allow user to switch to su when issuing hbackup commands

it appears that if I am a user who can go into su (superuser) and then issue the hbackup command it doesn't honor or check the requestors ability to go to “su” (Facility class BPX.SUPERUSER). So…unless I have full access to all the files I want to...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF DataSet and File search - Small Tunings - Sort by changed date, searchfor options

Add Under Dataset and File Search feature: Columns used by 3270 dataset list utility (Volume, %used, etc) When viewing PDS dataset, add: SORT BY CHANGED DATE, srchfor string option (same used on 3270) sort prompt, id, etc.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Overflow of JES2 Resources beause of typing error in a batch application or in using the FTP JES2 interface

In a JES2 environment it is easily possible to quickly overflow every single type of JES2 resources, which are JQE's, JOE's, BERT's and Spool Space.A simple typing error in a batch application or in using the FTP JES2 interface may lead to trigger...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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