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    Adding ONLYAT support in IRRSEQ00 and IRRSMO00

    It's not an uncommon scenario that one LPAR is in an RRSF network but needs to have differences between it and other systems, so it would be really useful if the IRRSEQ00 and IRRSMO00 callable services supported the ONLYAT keyword, so we can autom...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Improve RACROUTE macro for REQUEST=FASTAUTH to MNOTE on missing WKAREA

    RACROUTE REQUEST=FASTAUTH needs a second work area (WKAREA) that other requests like "auth" don't require (they just required the WORKA), the idea is to add a MNOTE, just like when the normal work area is missing:** ASMA254I *** MNOTE *** 154+ 12,...
    2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Not under consideration

    Have the possibility to pass directly from password to passphrase authentication when you need to change your password.

    For upgrade the security, the company decides to switch from password authentication to passphrase authentication . For the moment the RACF administrator removes the password and sets up the passphrase for the UID. But the administrateur have ta s...
    5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Improve the quality of the exit passphrase

    Around the world, requirements are increasing for password length and complexity. Why don't include some rules in the exit ? For Example : Non-trivial password and passphrase of at least 15 characters that must include letters, numbers, special ch...
    2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    z/VM TCPIP : add support to VMSSL for SNI(Server Name Indication)

    We require this to allow for connections to cloud provisioned services under Openshift and without SNI within zVM VMSSL this is not possible.
    6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Remove LNOTES segment from RACF

    The LNOTES is virtually unused and irrelevant in the modern business. If we removed it would be easier to create products and APIs around RACF, it would also be less information new-to-z people would have to deal with.
    8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

    Enable Ansible integration with z/VM

    Ansible Automation is an extremely popular tool that is available on many platforms (including zOS) except for zVM. While providing native SSH access to zVM may be unrealistic I believe that leveraging a Linux VM with SMCLI to communicate to SMAPI...
    9 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

    Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

    As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    RACF - RSA 8192-bit Modulus CCA service updates

    Recently support of 8192-bit modulus for RSA has been released for CCA services. Please see as well the IBM blogpost here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/richard-kisley1/2025/06/26/cca-84-for-ibm-z17-z16-ml-kem-ml-dsa#:~:text=ICSF%...
    5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    The warning message should be issued for new datasets as well, not just for existing datasets.

    It would be advisable to extend the dataset profile warning to dataset allocation as well, rather than limiting it only to access and delete operations. Currently, notifications in the syslog and to the user are generated only for these latter cas...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

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