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    Allow Sysplex Distributor to monitor ATTLS health

    In the event of an ATTLS Group failure, all connections to the system which are secured with ATTLS would fail. Sysplex Distributor would still forward connections to the sick system even when the other destinations are healthy. Sysplex distributor...
    2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Improve the quality of the exit passphrase

    Around the world, requirements are increasing for password length and complexity. Why don't include some rules in the exit ? For Example : Non-trivial password and passphrase of at least 15 characters that must include letters, numbers, special ch...
    2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    z/OSMF - Network Configuration Assistant - Traffic Descriptor smart filtering

    Currently in a Traffic Descriptor the Job Name filter does accept wildcard character as the last character. This works but depending on jobname pattern this can result in a large list of traffic types in a traffic descriptor. If the differentiator...
    4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Move the start of the AUTOR functionality earlier in the IPL process?

    Can we move the start of the AUTOR functionality earlier in the IPL process? Before joining the sysplex and/or page data sets? This would be helpful to the IBM Z Cyber Vault platform. The IBM Z Cyber Vault footprint is getting more interest, and h...
    19 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Under review

    Add TOP option to ISPF MEMLIST dialog service

    Enhance the ISPF MEMLIST dialog service to include an option such as TOP(membername) as is found in LMMDISP. This would permit the MEMLIST invocation to scroll a specified member to the top of the resulting member list. The behavior would be the s...
    19 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

    Allow pattern characters in ISPF member selection list FILTER command

    The ISPF member selection list FILTER primary command allows only a trailing wildcard such as: FILTER NAME EQ LOAD* This enhancement would permit leading, middle pattern characters, both of: * (asterisk) : zero or more characters % (percent sign) ...
    19 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

    Remove LNOTES segment from RACF

    The LNOTES is virtually unused and irrelevant in the modern business. If we removed it would be easier to create products and APIs around RACF, it would also be less information new-to-z people would have to deal with.
    8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

    Automate "AI Powered Workload Management" Training

    From time to time, new training must be initiated for “AI Powered Workload Management”. At present, this training must be initiated manually. We would like to have a way to trigger this training automatically using an automation tool. The result o...
    8 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Future consideration

    Change permissions on mount/mkdir

    We have /tmp filesystem mounted as TFS filesystem. There are several tasks, that are using /tmp/javasharedresources. The first task using this path will make this directory. In the moment, we have to trust the application or programmer to choose t...
    20 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

    RACF - RSA 8192-bit Modulus CCA service updates

    Recently support of 8192-bit modulus for RSA has been released for CCA services. Please see as well the IBM blogpost here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/richard-kisley1/2025/06/26/cca-84-for-ibm-z17-z16-ml-kem-ml-dsa#:~:text=ICSF%...
    5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

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