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    STGADMIN (ADMIN) AUTHORIZATION FOR REPLACE KEYWORD

    We would like to have a separate FACILITY profile STGADMIN.ADR.STGADMIN.RESTORE.REPLACE to be able to protect the replace functions for DFSMSdss STORAGE ADMINS. Storage admin should be able to restore any data set but not necessary be able to repl...
    20 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Under review

    Add error message to the chgrp command if group has no gid

    I suggest adding an error message to the chgrp command if the group has no gid or no OMVS segment. <insert incomprehensible IBM error code> Group has no GID, command failed And another error message if the group has no OMVS segment <inser...
    6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Under review

    Warning message for new data sets covered by a Generic Profile

    Allowing a warning period - IBM Documentation The warning message is issued for existing data sets, not for new data sets. For example, if you try to create a new data set that has the same name as a generic profile that does not give you ALTER ac...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

    Adding Functionality into RMF Monitor III and Z Performance Capacity Analytics for MQ

    Dear IBM Team We have been provided with the IBM MQ Support Pac to interpret SMF data and the MQCMD utility to use. I can confirm it is very useful in the absence if anything else, if you required to keep channel message information and data trend...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Submitted

    z/OS resolver should comply with the requirement in RFC 1034 to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names

    RFC 1034 requires to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names. Based on a recent incident that we experienced, it seems that the z/OS resolver does not do this. We are requesting the z/OS resolver to comply wit...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Implement python3 support for BCPii

    As of today, BCPii v1 and v2 (HWIREST) offer callable services for REXX, C, and Assembler. However, making REST-like calls using REXX, C, or Assembler can be cumbersome due to the limited or overly complex support for essential functionalities suc...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 2 Under review

    Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy structure's PREFLIST

    Currently the maximum CFs per each structure's PREFLIST parameter in a CFRM policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Under review

    Extend the passphrase length to 128 bytes.

    This will be useful for even better security.
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for awk

    awk is a powerful scripting language for text manipulation in the USS arena. ISPF should support this language. All ISPF users would benefit from this enhancement.
    12 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

    Provide ACEE change correction capability

    Currently ACEECHK capabilities in RACF detect unexpected changes to the ACEE control block and its associated control blocks (TOKEN, ACEX, etc.) and issue IRR421I messages showing what has been changed. Please provide an option to change the contr...
    12 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

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