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Facility class for ICKDSF miss option adding a generic volume list

In our shop only storage guys are allowed to initialize a volume. Meaning having required access to facility class STGADMIN.ICK.INIT/REFORMAT/etc. So whenever a sysprog want to reformat or init a specific named range of volumes named ie ABC%%% the...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 2 Future consideration

Enhance IFASMFDP to use efficient buffering to significantly reduce job elapsed time

All users would benefit in their SMF daily jobstreams by being able to quickly and efficiently process the Hundreds of Millions of records in a short time span.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

The access control check for services, keys or cryptoz resources should be postponed until after the security product has initialized.

We've changed our ICSF startup to an 'early startup' by setting system parameters ICSFPROC=ICSF and ICSF=xx. We're now noticing the following messages during startup that weren't there before : CSFM012I NO ACCESS CONTROL AVAILABLE FOR CRYPTOZ RESO...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Git path directory, for adding transparent git support for datasets

A `.git` file can be created with content: `gitdir: <path-to-zFS-where-no-pdspdse-constraints-exist>` to keep all git data elsewhere. Another advantage of keeping .git data separate (DSFS transparently handling just a representative `.git` f...
7 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Passphrases need to be in non-display field when PASSWORD PHRASE tso command prompts for user entry of old and new passphrases

Strengthens security since people standing nearby cannot see what the user is typing
7 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF FTPS - storing Transfer ID permanent

Since FTPS you have to use the transfer ID and password for sending data to IBM PMRs. There is no option to save the Transfer ID and password permanent. At the moment every z/OSMF user saves his own Transfer ID and password in an text file and use...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ZOSMF recursive workflow

Requesting to add feature for recursively calling workflow steps.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DFSMS - Change listcat to allow quick compare of size for compressed files

When doing a quick compare of the compress ratio using listcat it would be of great benefit to have the USER-DATA-SIZE and COMP-USER-DATA-SIZE stacked and not on the same line. To do a quick compare one has to copy paste the numbers (e.g. to a not...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

RACF: Establish a Permission Create Date

This idea goes along with ZSECURE-I-566. The zSecure suite has several toolsets to cleanup the RACF DB. One area of cleanup is unused/inactive permissions. Access Monitor does track when a permission has been used and provides a tool to remove the...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

bpxwmigf working with ZFSs (VSAM) as name ends with .D (not .DATA)

Nós temos milhares de ZFSs para serem migrados/redefinidos porém este utilitário possui uma limitação no tratamento dos nomes dos ZFSs. Ele obrigatoriamente espera que os nomes terminem com '.DATA' porém nossos ZFSs possuem nomes próximos de 44 ca...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration