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PDSE NOLOAD portion visibility from TSO/ISPF

The standard ISPF utilities in TSO/ISPF do NOT report on NOLOAD portions of PDSE's. This means that TSO/ISPF utilties and panels such as 'Data set Utility' do NOT provide a full and accurate Portrayal of the contents of load libraries and stored a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

DFSMShsm failed CDS Backup only stops automatic functions on just one system

If the cds backup fails, the auto functions should be stopped on all systems, not just the one on which the backup was running.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Color the different file types in ISPF UDLIST

In ISHELL it is possible to maintain the colors of the different file types in a file list. For example yellow for Symlinks, red for Directories, green for regular files.It would be nice to have this feature in UDLIST too.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Distributed Identity Mapping Support for JWT Token Subject

As of today, when using JWT Token with RACF, the subject is documented to be required to be the RACF Userid. As such the RACF userid must be known to the creator of the JWT Token.RACF JWT support should be enhanced to allow to send a users X.500 D...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Reduce the polling time between zOSMF Workflow/Template Steps

For a non-REST-steps in z/OSMF Workflow like JCL step, there is an internal poll time which is 5 seconds (fix). Currently, the Workflow users cannot reduce the internal poll time manually. For Services or Application that use z/OSMF Templates or W...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Support for RACF federation with external IdP (using JWTs for authentication)

We are establishing the use of JWTs for authentication and authorization purposes. The idea is to set up an identity provider (IdP) in our internal network. In order for z/OS applications to be able to accept and acquire JWT tokens there is a need...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

IBM z/OSMF REST API support user token authentication

Currently z/OSMF REST API support the following ways of authentication: -Basic authentication -Certificate authentication -Web token authentication We'd like to have user token or private key authentication supported, such that users don't need to...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add a set of return codes in RACF r_secmgtoper documentation for empty non-boolean character fields

r_secmgtoper does not validate a field that has no field data in it, and creates an ALTUSER racf command with an empty field. The field is not suffixed with parenthesis to indicate the absence of field data. If the call is made without an EXECUTE ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Use of System Symbolics on Library names in the Program Class

Properly maintaining the Libraries listed as ADDMEMs in the PROGRAM class can be quite cumbersome when LINKLIST changes are made in the environment. Ensuring that the libraries are current is a foundation of using program level security to protect...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Allow BCPii to see capacity records that have been downloaded but not accepted/installed. Even better would be for it to install those records and activate them if desired. Activation is most likely only useful for loaner record.

If there is a new capacity record downloaded, we can't even see it in BCPii. If we could we could alert someone that an action needs to be taken to "get" that record. Of course, letting BCPii get the record would be even better than just letting B...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration