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zFS - Update catalog bits also when filesystem is mounted RO

The zFS attributes from the CATALOG will be updated only when the filesystem is mounted RDWR. Meaning when a cluster is allocated with 'DEFINE CLUSTER LINEAIR' (not with ZFS keyword). And afterwards always mounted RO, the catalog is never updated....
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

OpenShift Foundation for zCX Support for Egress IP addresses

Currently, we're migrating services from OpenShift x86 to OpenShift in zCX. One of our services have to use Egress IP addresses - this is a security requirement. Once we've configured the Egress IPs within OCP@zCX, we see the outbound SYN coming i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Allow the use of EKMF to create/store GDK keys

We use EKMF exclusively to manage the content of our CKDS, as a policy choice. I have been getting push back from our Key management team to allow us to use the current CDA setup for generating and storing keys. It would be helpful if CDA allowed ...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Ways needed to change single options of IEAOPT

We need a way to set single options out of the scope of IEAOPTxx member without overwriting all the other options. There should either be a command "SETOPT option=value" that only changes the specified option. Or "SET OPT=xx" should only change th...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Future consideration

Add a RACDCERT REST API to z/OSMF

It would be useful if we could get an API to manage digital certificates or at the minimum get a list of keyrings and certificates on the system. A RACDCERT API could be used for external management tools and to make utilities that give notificati...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Define KEYRING_OWNER in PARMLIB instead of local_override.cfg

If you use a shared KeyRing (one certificate for all services on one LPAR) you have currently to alter /global/zosmf/configuration/local_override.cfg inserting a line "KEYRING_OWNER_USERID=certOwnerID"The KEYRING_NAME is configured in IZUPRM00.Thi...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

DFDSS COPY jobs - allow user to determine if a copy job issues RC4 or RC8 for a missing dataset

We get an RC4 for COPY step with a missing dataset. We also get RC4 for a COPY of a PE (prevasivelky encrypted) file that was OPEN when the copy was performed. Using condition code checking we cannot differentiate between the missing file, which w...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

IRRDBU00 / RACF Unload Support zMFA Settings

The zMFA Settings that are specified in zMFA ISPF applications are stored in the RACF database, as far as we see, in JSON format. Currently, IRRDBU00 supports the unload of zMFA Factors and policies, but not zMFA settings. IRRDBU00 should be enhan...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

SMF Subtype reporting

z/OS 2.4 offers new way of reporting SMF subtypes. It provides a report on record type and subype. However, it would be nice, if this report would show how many record type and subtype records were produced per System. This functionality can be ac...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

ADRDSSU Dump: should not ignore migrated Dataset, at least give warning message for Migrated Dataset not included in DUMP

Hello Team,Our monthly maintenance process is lot dependent on ADRDSSU utility, where we take DUMP of target to Runtime and Runtime DUMP from one lpar to another using ADRDSSU. Last two months due to some SMS change some of our target libraries go...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Future consideration

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