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In z/OS the client needs a possibility to create keytab files with the option for custom salts to be used with WAS or other Components

Traditionally the keytab utility was shipped with the IBM Java SDK until Java 8 but misses the functionality to use a custom SALT. From Java 11 on, it was not further shipped. IBM z/OS offers a keytab utility but with very limited support to use a...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

Create a report to show the unused defaults table entries

If a customer has a large number of VRS definitions he can use the VRSEL report to identify "Unused VRS Definitions" at the end of the report. I have successfully converted a customer with approximate 13.0000 RDS definitions to approximate 13.000 ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Autobackup for HSM USS files

This functionality to allow the USS files under a file system to be automatically backed when the autobackup for the SMS management class is setup.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

IBM GTZ for EAV support should provide the dataset name when a module is found as being in error

Hello, When the tracker identify a program not EAV compliant for example for reason SMS-E:1 DADSM OBTAIN, the tracker should provide on which dataset name the problem was found This could allow to migrate one storage group to EAV if we found that ...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

Improvemet for recovery from MCL out of sync status

The failure of SE console HDD were occurred during MCL apply. Then it was MCL out of sync status.If the difference between MCL of SE Console and MCL of CPC is 1 Level, POR (Power on Reset) is not required for recovery.However, if it is 2 levels or...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Anticipating RACF profiles that reaching maximum size

IRR411I message indicates when a profile reached the maximum output size that RACF can handle (65 535 bytes), but it is not possible to know the real size of a profile at a given moment to anticipate this situation. Would it be possible to impleme...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

zOSMF - Data Set and File Search enhancement for data type

This new feature is very useful and handy to scroll through large members and files. However, when allocating a new file in USS it should be possible to provide the file format in which the file is allocated like UTF-8 or ASCII. Additionally the c...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Add more options to "fixing"

The generation of RACF commands to "fix" the security settings is a great new feature. However, we like to suggest some improvements: - do not generate a new discrete profile but check for the best-matching profile instead (maybe let the user deci...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: New feature to remove authorizations

Currently, "fixing" a security definition via SCA allows to add a user or group to a profile. We would like to have a new feature to: - list who is currently authorized for access to a specific resource - generate RACF commands to remove certain u...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration