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Increasing Security and Control for FTP JES Interface

Provide mechanisms for disabling and restricting the use of the FTP JES interface.Add a JESINTERFACELEVEL=0 option in configuration file FTP.DATA to prohibit FTP users from interfacing with JES. Allowing access to JES from FTP introduces a securit...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

Optional default NEWGEN or NOGEN for edit command SAVE

This applies to PDSE libraries with version 2 and number of generations bigger than 0.AS-IS :You create a new generation of a member every time you change and save it since SAVE NEWGEN is the default for current generation of the member.So if you ...
6 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

RACDCERT ADD support of certificates exported with OpenSSL 3.x

Currently, RACF doesn't support the creation or the display of Certificates with multiple SANs. This is a major weakness. As gskkyman is not a valid replacement and the z/OS PKI can't be used, we create our certificates with OpenSSL. By default, O...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Delivered

Outage while ACTIVATE IODF=xx,TEST

While testing an IODF with a very huge amount of changes the lpar stopped. Till that moment we assumed a test of an IODF can't lead into an outage. This may not happen. Please correct that.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 9 Delivered

Software installation: Dataset restore w/o CB.** RACF dataset profile

Today, the use of z/OSMF software management for the installation of z/OS requires, that CB.** RACF data set profiles are defined. Our RACF rules only allow RACF userids with corresponding dataset profiles that are actively used. For a successful ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

HMC with autoscaling windows in all 'screens'

Currently there is no HMC/SE internal alignment that windows do auto scale. As nowadays when working with large screens but the HMC window does not auto scale and works with fixed height of 30 lines, that's not very user-friendly. Hence all window...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

Monitor SID Cache Utilization on GSKSRVR

Provide SessionID Cache metrics to determine effectiveness of SID Cache in GSKSRVR
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Delivered

RACF: Logging of successful login

Standards (e.g. PCI-DSS 10.2.5) require that successful login to the system or application must be logged. Today the successful login logging depends on the resource manager, which handles the login. It should be possible to activate the successfu...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Delivered

Add DATACLAS selection to ZOSMF Software Manager Deployment Configuration of Datasets

In ZOSMF Software Manager - Deployment Dataset Configuration. Allow a DATACLAS field in addition to the STORCLAS field. This will allow for the allocation of NON-SMS EXTENDED FORMAT ZFS files (that are greater than 4GB).
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 4 Delivered

TLS Version selection in OSA ICC configuration

OSA EXPRESS5/6S with z13GA2 resp. z14 does support TLS V.1.x for ICC communication.Required is an optional choice of supported CipherSpecs on the OSA EXPRESS Firmware level.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Delivered

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