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LE individual modules CEEROPT and CEEUOPT should be treated the same

CEEROPT and CEEUOPT allow for the passage of LE options at the individual job/application level. However, currently CEEROPT and be loaded from STEPLIB while CEEUOPT requires that it be linked with the application/program. CEEROPT is for region lev...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

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over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Not under consideration

Empowering conditional access to general resources through privileged programs

Some resources different from DATASET also should be accessed through allowed programs. This would allow a refined access to some sensitive resources such as those under SURROGAT (for example, USER1 can submit a job in the name of USER2 only if th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allowing program name masking in conditional access to DATASETS

Multiple program names are allowed in the parameter WHEN(PROGRAM(...)) in the PERMIT command. However this is not practical if many programs starting with the same first characters are to be specified in the list or if a new program, also starting...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Log Stream Archive Function Forces Output Record

What we are looking for is a solution to the following requirement from IFASMFDL (taken from the SMF Manual Chapter 3, Using the SMF Dump Programs): For an ARCHIVE request, you must write each record in the log stream up until the end date and tim...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF: Allow mass-update for Workflows in the Workflows GUI

Allow some sort of "Mass update" function for the workflows in the workflows GUI. Currently, there is no way to modify multiple workflows when you are not the owner of the workflow.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Protect a SVIPA in one LPAR from being overridden with a DVIPA with same IP address in another LPAR on a shared OSA

A static VIPA (SVIPA) is defined in LPAR1 and a VIPARANGE of DVIPAs is defined in LPAR2 that overlaps the SVIPA. Customer inadvertently specified SVIPA as the source IP address for a FTP batch job on LPAR2 and the following actions were taken: 1) ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Intelligent refresh after a new user/group is added to a resource access list.

After adding an user or group to a resource access list a SETROPTS REFRESH for the class to which the resource belongs is required. This has a huge impact on performance depending on the resource class.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

ZOSMF Configuration Assistant - Automatic backups Configuration Changes

Our team uses z/OSMF Communication Server Configuration Assistant to implement at-tls, ids, and ipsec policy on z/OS 2.2 Communications Server. We would like for configurations to be automatically backed up after a change is made in each. Several ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zos telnet need to support ssl tls1.2

zos telnet cannot support ssl . We are eliminating non secure connection of port 23, 1023, and 2023. our user logon to tso then use option 6 to telnet to another mainframe via unsecure session. We need to have this function secure using like using...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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