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Prevent the user to activate all RACF cdt classes trying to list the active options

The way RACF is designed today, it doesn't allow an user to filter sort of options it has in effect. For example, if I want to list only the active classes, there isn't a filter for that suggesting I should use SETROPTS LIST to list everything. Th...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

USS tar command support with zEDC

USS tar command support with zEDC Express Adaper for compress and uncompress. Currently, we need the third vender software with zEDC for compress, but versatility expands if USS tar command can be used with zEDC express adaptor. The CPU Time is re...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Enhance IRRXUTIL/R_admin to support DIGTCERT/DIGTCERT

I would like to see the R_admin/IRRXUTIL interface enhanced to support the "non-standard" RACF classes DIGTCERT and DIGTRING, this would allow administrators to extract all digital certificate info using IRRXUTIL without needing to rely on using I...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

VTAM Connection Network Pending PU Processing

When a Connection Network PU goes into a pending state during connection establishment, VTAM does not perform any INOP Processing as it does for native Enterprise Extender connections. The pending PU remains in the pending state for an indefinite ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide common APIs in support of PDSE Member Generations

We know member generations are useful but to access them requires a lot of work, especially from the open environment. By providing a set of common APIs current, i.e. REXX, and new, i.e.Perl, python, etc. will be able to easily work with member ge...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Not under consideration

Support VS-CODE for editing native (Rexx, HLASM, etc.) CMS files

Currently VS CODE supports editing z/OS datasets on a workstation via the z/OSMF facility. CMS developers would benefit from having the same capabilities for editing CMS files using VS-CODE and its toolsets.
about 1 year ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU time for UNIX file security especially if you have FSACCESS on

Please enhance FSACCESS and UNIX file system access so it stops draining our engines. I would suggest adding a cache so that FSACCESS doesn't hammer RACF with calls ever single time anything traverses a directory or touches a file.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 7 Not under consideration

DFSMS ACS &MAXSIZE for Extended Format datasets

The value for the variable &MAXSIZE in DFSMSdfp Automatic Class Selection for NON-VSAM datasets is always calculated as 1 x Primary + 15 x Secondary, + Directory if applicable. In the case of &DSNTYPE being EXC, EXR or LIBRARY this value s...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

Additional Authority needed on RACF Classes

Class Authority allows a userid to create profiles in a RACF class owned by themselves or another but they can only see profiles they either have at least READ access to or own. Only a user with SPECIAL can see all profiles in a class, there needs...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add DTLS Support for Enterprise Extender

We would like to see if DTLS could be added in Enterprise Extender so we could use SSL with UDP.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration