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sudo incidents should be reported

If a user, that is not in the sudo group tries to issue a sudo it looks like this: user@server:~$ sudo mkdir /test[sudo] password for user:user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. But as I was told in case TS004442144 this ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

convert more than just the IBM-1047 to UTF-8

We're really interested in DFSMS CDA and have a lot of use cases. However, more code pages need to be added to the CONVERT option. We need to have support for EBCDIC 278 <=> UTF-8.
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

zCX - Enable WLM to manage containers running within a single zCX STC

When running a zCX address space hosting many application containers in it, it shall be possible to manage the workload with WLM. Otherwise I cannot benefit from hosting many applications within once zCX address space.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Allow user to update config of SSH CLI container for security-related control

Currently, for the SSH CLI container embedded in zCX address space, users are not allowed to update any parms for the SSH server and this will only pick the default Openssh configs for its execution, meaning clients are allowed to use some old and...
6 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

ISPF 3.17 Browse - fix codepage detection

When using ISPF 3.17 and selecting a file to Edit/View the codepage is correctly detected and the data is usable. When selecting the same file using Browse the codepage is not correctly detected and the data if unintelligible. This should be fixed.
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Prevent LPAR definitions that would span CPC drawers

When configuring LPAR definitions for a CEC via the HMC, logic should exist to prevent customers from specifying a configuration of zIIPs, CPs, and weight that would result in an LPAR that spans drawers. Basically, perform the calculations for the...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF export/import of configuration definitions

We have more than one z/OSMF running in more then one sysplex. We would like to export and import some of the configured functions from one z/OSMF to the other. For example - z/OS Operator Consoles- Links- FTP Servers- etc Same as for Network Conf...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workflow Syntax Check for input variables

Currently, z/OSMF seems to not be able to check input fields for the correct syntax. In case of wrong input fields, z/OSMF just accepts the input and continues. This is even worse in case of e.g. provisioning a black box like zCX. For example: zCX...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 3 Future consideration

hbdelete - deleting Unix Directories recursively

We need an option with hbdelete to delete a whole directory with all files and sub-directories. Like option -X for hlist, the same option could be implemented for hbdelete. e.g. hbdelete -aX /u/iz01715/All files and sub-directories will be deleted...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Update LDAP on z/OS to bring it into this century with the TLS levels it supports

The LDAP documentation (and defaults) are woefully behind times. The give instructions on SSL V3, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 despite these versions being deprecated.The doc needs to be updated. The samples and defaults need to be updated, and deprecated ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

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