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Add SNMP v3 support for BCPii to communicate with Support Element

IT Security is very very important nowadays. SNMP v3 is a state of art security standard over SNMP v2. Right now, both HMC and SE support SNMP v3 for API call. Should enhance z/OS BCPii feature to support SNMP v3 as well.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Not under consideration

DFSMS and improved volume selection in a Storagegroup.

Any installation changes volume size over the years. From M3 to M54 and now many of us use EAVs as well.So the storagegroups is typically a mix volumes with different sizes; from a few GBs to many GBs. The key criteria for SMS volume selection und...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

DUMP Full list datset who were on the volume

Once upon a time, with DFDSS when you do Dump full you can only do a restore full. Since many years, you are able to restore a dataset unless the dump was full. The problem is that you never had the list of dataset contained on the dump full. Obvi...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Functionality already exists

Add a RACDCERT REST API to z/OSMF

It would be useful if we could get an API to manage digital certificates or at the minimum get a list of keyrings and certificates on the system. A RACDCERT API could be used for external management tools and to make utilities that give notificati...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Change HSM Filemode Messages to something different from ARCxxxx to differentiate automation procedures from HSM Classic.

When HSM Classic and Filemode are running as separate tasks and message driven automation is used for things like CDS backups and archiving PDAs and LOGs, compex code is needed to differentiate between the two due to the fact the messages from bot...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Please develop an AMCE Client for z/OS

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On z/OS this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
6 months ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Not under consideration

Create New SMF Record subtype for ACEECHK Warnings

When enabling ACEECHK class in RACF to detect ACEE modification detection events, only IRR421I is issued to the syslog. This request is to have a SMF80 subtype record created to log these events so they can be easily researched among recent or arc...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

zCX: Personal and technical Userids mustn't be in the same group / results in workflow failures / rerunability

The zCX workflow says for the SAF group to be specified during provisioning: "Specify an existing SAF group name to allow that group access to this IBM z/OS Container Extensions appliance instance directory. The provisioning user of this IBM zCX a...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

System wide System SSL Settings

We would like the ability to set system wide System SSL settings at IPL time. We would like a configuration, where we can permanently disable legacy SSL settings (protocols, ciphers, ecurves, keysizes, etc.). Currently, it is up to each Applicatio...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

IRRDBU00 / RACF Unload Support zMFA Settings

The zMFA Settings that are specified in zMFA ISPF applications are stored in the RACF database, as far as we see, in JSON format. Currently, IRRDBU00 supports the unload of zMFA Factors and policies, but not zMFA settings. IRRDBU00 should be enhan...
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration