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Ensure UNIX System Services is passing IP information to type 80s in all possible cases

Please evaluate all USS code that calls RACF and ensure wherever possible an IP is added to the logstring of the RACROUTE call.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Enhance BPXMRPWD __passwd syscall to pass IP information to the RACF logstring field at time of SMF recording

Enhance BPXMRPWD as part of __passwd syscall processing so that the IP address is recorded in the logstring field in type 80 records. See PMR 92769 L6Q 000 and updates from John Shebey.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Automount and RACF FSACCESS

When we use automount, where the policy creates a new zfs for a userid, in conjunction with RACF FSACCESS, "phantom" directories are created. It would seem more sensible that automount honours FSACCESS before the dataset is created.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Allow MSGCLASS to be overriden

The message class for z/OS Unix is class A. This is a print class for us and listings are being printed we don't want to print. From my experience Class A is a common print class.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

USS HealthChecks

We are requesting to add USS health checks to Health Checker for z/OS to validate correct USS configuration and also identify best practices. Some items that we would like checked: (1) Validate permission bits for /etc, /dev, /tmp (i.e. ensure tmp...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Remove appending a number to <8 character USS forked jobnames

For jobnames that are <8 characters, when the parent process forks a new process the new processes jobname becomes the parent jobname with a number from 1-9 appended. If the jobname is 8 characters long then the child processes jobnames are equ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Enhance UNIX to allow file level control using WHEN(SERVAUTH)

Please enhance z/OS UNIX so that WHEN(SERVAUTH) support in RACF can be used to grant access at a file level in UNIX.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Update OCOPY to correct abend S213-15 (IEC143I) if DSNTYPE=LARGE and SMS BLOCKTOKENSIZE is REQUIREd

We depend OCOPY to move files from z/OS Unix space (zFS) and more importantly, Network File System space into z/OS data sets. These files can be very large and require DSNTYPE=LARGE. However, in our z/OS ISV development environment with SMS settin...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

HealthCheck IBMUSS,USS_CLIENT_MOUNTS with NFS unusable

In our environment the health check displays permanently NFS errors which are in our customisation nomal. Everything is working fine, but the HealthCheck is generally unusable with these NFS CLIENT=Y errors. Problem is not solvable thru a change i...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Provide UNIX dirfd() functionality on z/OS for portability

dirfd - extract the file descriptor used by a DIR streamJustification: For purposes of porting code from other UNIX platforms to z/OS support for the OpenGroup defined dirfd() function should be provided so that a directory can be assigned a file ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

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