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Report the RACF database template level of each INDDn database in the SYSPRINT output from IRRDBU00

Output from IRRDBU00 is highly dependent upon the level of the templates in the database being unloaded. Knowing the level of the templates can help set expectations as to the contents of the unload. This information can also provide a mechanism f...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

All error messages for shell tools should be complete and NOT require referencing a Messages and Codes manual

Receiving a message like this (example from DSFS dsadm command): IDFS00329E Could not set creation parameters, return code 126 reason code ED07621A. Is confusing and meaningless to the average OMVS shell user. They are not used to finding a messag...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 4 Not under consideration

Define the conflicting certificates have same public key within RACF database

RACF database should have certificates with same public key to be defined. As long as certificates have different serial number, they should be consider as different certificates. Since Digicert has created two intermediate CA which have different...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
8 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

System Recovery Boost SMF record to know how much CPU used in ZIIP instead of GCP

During System Recovery Boost (SRB) some work, that is not eligible for zIIP, is dispatched on zIIP's in case there isn’t sufficient standard CP capacity available. There is existing SMF to count how much there is zIIP eligible time spent on CP's, ...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Not under consideration

Mask LPAR data in multi customer environment

We are a service provider managing multiple customers sharing the same mainframe CPC.Our need is to avoid a customer can read LPAR usage data belonging to other customer (different group capacity).In other words we have multiple LPAR group (one fo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

Middleware recovery Boost parameters options

Dear Madam/Sir We would like to have the feasibility to change the way that is divided the daily interval of 30minutes of Recovery Boost. It should be useful to have the possibility of customization of thefollowing Middleware Recovery boost settin...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Not under consideration

Preventing ICH14081I Warning Message

ICH14081I message is issued when RACF encounters a duplicate class name in the dynamic class descriptor table and the installation-defined class descriptor table (module ICHRRCDE). The class attributes in the dynamic class table override any class...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Upstream all z/OS USS ported commands (i.e. cp, grep)

z/OS is distributed with many UNIX commands, such as cp and grep. These commands, in many cases, have not evolved from when they were originally ported while the open-source version has evolved with additional capabilities and features. The z/OS c...
8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

IRR.PASSWORD.RESET profile should be provide more flexibility

CONTROL access to the profile permits to a user to: 1) Reset a password with NOEXPIRED operand or 2) Reset the password or password phrase within the minimum change interval for a user who does not have the SPECIAL, OPERATIONS, AUDITOR, or PROTECT...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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