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RACF Password Settings need to include Complexity, Examples: 1. To prevent the use of 3 repeating or sequential characters. 2. Avoid specific words such as User Name / Name of Service. 3. Prevent the use of passwords obtained from previous breaches.

Audit requires ability for specific Complexity settings as listed in my Idea above and beyond RACF specific Password settings. Examples: 1. To prevent the use of 3 repeating or sequential characters. 2. Avoid specific words such as User Name / Nam...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

ABARS - filters in the SYSIN to select the datasets

We are using ABARS as a backup solution for a new project. However I have to select different datasets, including GDG's and I cannot find a way to use DFSMSDss resources in my ABARS (ABACKUP) SYSIN. As far as I can see I can only use INCLUDE and E...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Field Filters - Incident Log

Need the ability to filter on an 'is empty' value within the filter rules within, and also provide 'or' logic within the filtering rules inside Incident Log.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Tape temp dataset change request

The management class ACS routine is not driven for tape temp datasets, therefore the MC is not being passed to the TS7700 and uses the default.MC.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Requesting timestamp to be 'restored' to original for sym links when tar or pax is used to 'unzip' an archive file.

Hello USS Development team, As we prepare to migrate HFS user file systems to zFS I am testing back out scenarios and have observed that both the IBM provided migration utility (BPXWH2Z) and back out options I have tested (tar and pax to copy new ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

Preserve JESJCLIN & SYSIN over NJE / OFFLOAD / SECERROR

JES2 would preserve the special datasets JESJCLIN and the generated for SYSIN DD */DATA, when Jobs travel through NJE, OFFLOAD or there are security problems.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

z/VM and related subsystems to report correct time

ll human-readable (i.e. non-TOD format) date and time values generated by CP, CMS, GCS, REXX, DVF, TCP/IP, RACF, RSCS, and Performance Toolkit components of z/VM must be correct, where "correct" is defined by "UTC plus the time zone offset when th...
almost 8 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

DFSMS does NOT populate S42AMZRB and S42AMZWB

DFSMS does NOT populate S42AMZRB and S42AMZWB in SMF_42 subtype 6 record in our SMF data That is the reason why TDS displays them as 0.0. This is NOT a TDS error.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

Prioritization of mount tasks in DFRMM.

Prioritization of mount tasks in DFRMM. RMM should give mount tasks a higher priority then other tasks like catalog request tasks.In the moment there is no prioritization of tasks and all tasks are queued.RMM should interrupted other tasks and ful...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

gskkyman command deficiency

gskkyman command line does not allow for importing CA certificates without a key/password. In other words: gskkyman -i -k "database.kdb" -l "Some CA name" -p "ca.pem" will require a certificate file that has an accompanying key file. When you atte...
almost 8 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

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