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ECSA Storage Shortage Prevention

When the system is under ECSA/CSA stress have a new ENF signal raised to inform users that obtain ESCA storage and not give it back for performance reasons to give back that storage back and take a performance hit in order to prevent ESCA/CSA from...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 5 Not under consideration

Resolver resilience (routing to the DNS) needs to be improved

I opened a case with IBM where OSNMPD was building .boots files with the Loopback address inside instead of the Stack Static VIPA. It turns out that the Resolver was unable at that point during startup to obtain a route to the DNS and just gave up...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow greater flexibility in Certificate Name Filters

The Certificate Name Filters available under RACF today are very rigid in their matching process. As a short-hand, essentially one can consider the name filter as an exact search string match that the certificate subject must contain exactly. This...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow definition of user's PREFIX in RACF TSO segment

Currently, a TSO User's prefix defaults to USERID. This is not suitable in all environmentsI would like the ability to specify a PREFIX in the TSO segment (for example, to set this to the user's DEFAULT group).The prefix is stored in the UPT Contr...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Not under consideration

group-SPECIAL should be sufficient to reset a password for a user with the NOEXPIRED keyword even if they the ROAUDIT attribute

group-SPECIAL should be sufficient to reset a password for a user with the NOEXPIRED keyword even if they the ROAUDIT attribute.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks

Add RACF GLOBAL Support to FASTAUTH Checks Currently this is not supported as outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.icha700/spfgac.htm, but would lead to expanded use of GLOBAL entries to standard...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Allow Auditing by RACF Group

Allow auditing by RACF group. I need to audit accesses made by a specific RACF group.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands.

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands. Restrict/qualify the type of commands that can be sent across environment instead of existing all or nothing approach.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Add ALPHANUM Keyword to ISPF Panel VER Statement

There are edit checks for ALPHA and NUM, but not ALPHANUM. We have the need to validate fields that should only contain A-Z,0-9. We have to do this programmatically now. A panel edit check is much easier and much less coding to do.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Provide Limit on SDSF JES2 Commands

Currently a SDSF user can submit any number of commands with SDSF in the BLOCK Command process. JES2 can hang if too many $P or $T commands are entered.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration