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about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

RACF Read only auditor at group level

ROAUDIT is system level only. We need to be able to narrow the scope.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Would like to see messages IGGN307I and IEA712I made highlighted and non scrollable during IPL

It would prevent issues post IPL with missing LPA libraries
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Password Policy per user basis

Right now, we could set the following control globally. Inactive revoke, password minimum change interval Is it possible to set it down to the user level? There might be some use cases in a system that different user ID having different requiremen...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Loss of packet after VIPAROUTE implementation

Customer implemented VIPAROUTE and, when any target gets recicled, RTOP destination cache sets the smallest MTU among viable routes to the destination, causing the GRE headers exceeds the MTU size causing loss of packets between the distributor an...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

OSA SF on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S needed

Starting with OSA-Express 5S Adapters OSA S/F functionality has moved from z/OS to Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element (SE). We ask you to continue OSA/SF Support on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S and the following Cards.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

Group Connected To Groups

Want to have one group that uses RBAC (Role Based Access control) for the purpose of access control.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Increase PKI Services ?Requestor Field' limitation

To increase PKI ‘Requestor Field' limitation to accept more than 32 characters (email address)
about 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Not under consideration

Implement IXGINVNT REQUEST=CHECKDEF EXTRACT=YES and return all logstream names in a sysplex

It would be useful to go ahead and implement IXGINVNT REQUEST=CHECKDEF EXTRACT=YES. It would be nice to have information like the system name the logstream belongs to, status of the logstream, what kind of logstream it is, *DASDONLY*, PRODUCTION o...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 2 Not under consideration

PDS with 4K directory blocks, Load module headers

Current PDS directories are 256 bytes with 8 byte key, so 38 blocks per 3390 track or 9.5K of data. Allowing 4096 bytes with 8 byte key would allow 11 blocks per 3390 track or 44K of data. Current PDS directories only have full blocks until end of...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Not under consideration

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