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Limit UAUDIT logging

Provide a means to limit logging by UAUDIT users. Specifically, do not log DIRSRCH events for UAUDIT users.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

RSCS support for IPv6

RSCS support for IPv6 would allow US Government agencies to continue to use z/VM with RSCS and would bring RSCS into compliance with Office of Management and Budget mandates for products to support IPv6. This would benefit all z/VM customers as it...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

List available SSL/TLS Ciphers with info about use of Crypto Cards

In CICS communication (SSL/TLS) with ATM a Cipher is selected/negotiated. Please make a list of all ciphers with informations about which can run in the CryptoCard e.g. CEX6C (HW) to offload the usage of CPU, and which can only run using the norma...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

GDPS z/VM online/offline volumes hindering an ENABLED HYPERSWAP status

We have a GDPS environment with z/OS and z/VM and we are testing such that we have both participating in HYPERSWAP. The z/VM has a list of volumes for z/VM's use and those volumes are known to both z/OS and z/VM but z/OS volumes are only ever brou...
almost 5 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

LISTDATA VOLSPACE from PPRC Secondaries

The command LISTDATA VOLSPACE is not working for PPRC Secondaries located in Subchannel Set 1.We need to query SGCB information from PPRC Secondaries. This is not working:LISTDATA VOLSPACE DEVICE UNITNUMBER(7EA5) SUBCHSET(1) The parameter SUBCHSET...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Need support for AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) when using CDA

We are attempting to use CDA to write to an AWS S3 bucket. We had initial setup issues but resolved them. We were trying to request some information from the client about obtaining the SECRET KEY, and were told that process was not allowed because...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Encryption facility for z/OS Key management requirement

We are running z/OS 2.3 and we have Encryption Facility for z/OS (FMID HCF7740). We have a limited number of applications using the product at this time, but we would like to introduce it to more applications. There are a couple of factors limitin...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Future consideration

Prevent users or group of users to use SSO (Single Sign-on) within z/OSMF

When using SSO within z/OSMF any user defined to z/OSMF can use workflows (for example with a JCL template) to submit a job to another lpar/sysplex if they are also defined to that other lpar/sysplex. We would like to prevent some users or group o...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

HOLDUNTL a relative date

When SCHEDULE HOLDUNTL has a date specified it requires an absolute date (MM/DD/YY or YYYY/DDDD). This request would allow a relative day: ({[ 'HH:MM' ] , [ '+N'' ]}), where N is the number of days after the submission to which the job will be hel...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide a mechanism to prevent users from changing DCB for existing datasets

Please provide some mechanism to prevent an end user from modifying DCB information for an existing dataset. The mechanism to be used could be a parameter, perhaps in IGDSMSxx in PARMLIB, perhaps a RACF FACILITY class call. I leave that up to you....
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 1 Future consideration

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