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    Anticipating RACF profiles that reaching maximum size

    IRR411I message indicates when a profile reached the maximum output size that RACF can handle (65 535 bytes), but it is not possible to know the real size of a profile at a given moment to anticipate this situation. Would it be possible to impleme...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    SSHD Support for zVM OS

    SSHD support directly in VM would allow for modern tooling to connect and utilise the platform. Version control of config files via GIT for example.
    8 months ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

    Support for Large Block Interface in IRRADU00

    By enabling LBI for OUTDD (or XMLFORM), IRRADU00 would spend less CPU time on I/O processing, thereby potentially increasing throughput. Also, data compression on tape would be more efficient when storing large OUTDD data sets.
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    Improve R_ADMIN/IRRXUTIL to return empty segments

    For example, when processing dataset profiles and extracting DFP segments, empty DFP segments are not returned. Empty DFP segments can be DFP segments with NODATAKEY to exclude some datasets from z/OS dataset encryption and they are not returned w...
    5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Dual control functionality (4 eyes principle) in RACF

    Since IBM itself endorses that mainframe too is vulnerable to hacking, and setting up various defences is more crucial than ever, we are looking for additional ways to properly protect our mainframe environment from potential misuse of mainframe a...
    9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Future consideration

    Change authorization to the LISTDSD and RLIST commands and remove access from ID without any privileges.

    The current access to the LISTDSD/RLIST commands allow TSO users to build an access list of all dataset and resource it has access to. This allow the ID to explore any mistake in RACF rule and build attack vectors without logging. remove the follo...
    5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    Desirable new feature: GROUP revoke inactive days and consequently new user inactivity policy

    We have set SETROPTS INACTIVE(60) and this is applicable for all users. However, we have some specific users with the requirement not to be revoked after 60 days but more than this value. So, Inactivity should be helpful to be defined as group att...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

    Virtualize System Recovery Boost (SRB) so z/OS guests can exercise SRB code paths.

    For z/OS development environments hosted as z/VM guests, this would enable System Recovery Boost code paths to be exercised for things like SMF records, etc.
    5 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Command required to filter all the userid if it contain S# data.

    We are Monitoring all our ID's which will help us keep track of all the id we own, if there is any changes in the id we will be alerted and we can take action on it. how can we identify that id is our's? we will add S#=XXXXXX with our ID's to know...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    RACF should prioritize checking certificates with longer validity periods in the keyrings.

    Opening a new idea (RFE) since IBM changed the status of ZOS-I-4249 to Not under consideration Why is it useful: Let's consider an example: CustomerX provides a new subCA to Visa for installation as a trusted entity because one of their subCAs, sa...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 13 Future consideration

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