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Distributed Identity Mapping Support for JWT Token Subject

As of today, when using JWT Token with RACF, the subject is documented to be required to be the RACF Userid. As such the RACF userid must be known to the creator of the JWT Token.RACF JWT support should be enhanced to allow to send a users X.500 D...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

The ability to expunge old data set records from the RMM CDS is required

Due to the first in first out usage of scratch volumes in SMSTAPE and the fact that DFRMM maintains the data set records for volumes in scratch status, the RMM CDS may become full of data set records that are very old and unneeded. These records e...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

DFSMShsm failed CDS Backup only stops automatic functions on just one system

If the cds backup fails, the auto functions should be stopped on all systems, not just the one on which the backup was running.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

DFSMS RESTORE

Solve the dump and abend involving CATALOG for DFDSS restore where SMS SG is not found. See TS005186210 and TS005186373.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

ISPF Extended Stats when Member Record Count > 64K

With the ability to have PDSE members with more than 64K records the basic ISPF statistics fails. Extended ISPF Stats is an option that must be set site wide or by the individual user/member. Requesting that when a member is saved with more than 6...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

PDSE NOLOAD portion visibility from TSO/ISPF

The standard ISPF utilities in TSO/ISPF do NOT report on NOLOAD portions of PDSE's. This means that TSO/ISPF utilties and panels such as 'Data set Utility' do NOT provide a full and accurate Portrayal of the contents of load libraries and stored a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Improve the way of reporting FICON Link Incident Report

(System)Core banking systems (Description)In z/OS1.7 or later, when Linux on z recieves FICON Link Incident Report (LIR), zOS1.7 LPAR reports the LIR to the lowest MIF number of LPAR. BTMU would like to select whether or not z/OS reports the LIR.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 46 Future consideration

Support for RACF federation with external IdP (using JWTs for authentication)

We are establishing the use of JWTs for authentication and authorization purposes. The idea is to set up an identity provider (IdP) in our internal network. In order for z/OS applications to be able to accept and acquire JWT tokens there is a need...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Use of System Symbolics on Library names in the Program Class

Properly maintaining the Libraries listed as ADDMEMs in the PROGRAM class can be quite cumbersome when LINKLIST changes are made in the environment. Ensuring that the libraries are current is a foundation of using program level security to protect...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

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