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HMC LDAP authentication should recognize RACF GROUP to determine user Authority

Currently the Z HMC supports RACF LDAP for local user authentication but the user must be locally defined. The users authority is also determined by locally defined definitions. The HMC code needs to be updated so RACF GROUPS can be defined for HM...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA

When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Expose IBM Z IFL Resource Assignment metrics

PR/SM can assign IFLs across CPC Drawers which has a reported 10 to 20% performance impact. This is dynamic and may occur when PR/SM Global Optimisation executes. In order to be able to identify such an unbalanced configuration for our Production ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

OMVS GREP should support z/OS datasets

Many OMVS commands support accessing z/OS datasets using the "//'dataset.name'" but grep is not one of them. With OMVS scripting becoming more pervasive and with the need to access z/OS datasets still a requirement, this is important.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Delivered

JES2 POLICY - read and use value of SYSTEM SYMBOL

Within the new JES2 POLICY we need the possibility to read and use some SYSTEM SYMBOLS.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

VLF currently doesn't write SMF41-3 in High CPU Usage times

Currently, in situation where VLF needs much CPU, SMF41-3 records are not written. The reason for the high CPU could be different, like too large MAXVIRT, high load on catalogs, high frequency ACEE creation for example by Kerberos or whatever. SMF...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Delivered

Enhance CFRM Policy Editor to allow export of CFRM policy to CSV-format file

The z/OSMF CFRM Policy Editor is a major step forward in making it easier to view and change the contents of CFRM policies. However, there are situations where it would be valuable to be able to have the policy information in a spreadsheet-friendl...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

Mainframe utility to access S3 for store and retrieval

With increased use of the cloud we are facing a need to have S3 interface available on z/OS for transferring data between z/OS and the cloud.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Delivered

Extend isfjcall to call SDSF functions with parameters

Several SDSF functions allow the user to specify parameters on invocation, for example "CK E", "RM ALL", "DEV ACT". To the contrary, isfjcall runners always return all rows, often don't honor the function's default parameter (like for RM it is "RM...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

CSSMTP support for RFC4954

CSSMTP needs to support RFC4954 for TLS connectity to Microsoft Exchange servers.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

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