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Provide list-of-groups functionality for access checking RACF NODES profiles

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide the capability for RACF to validate access to NODES...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide a more granular control over timeout Abends (S522) than SMFPRMxx JWT/SWT/SWT

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide a more granular means of controlling / protecting j...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ISPF 3.17 Browse - fix codepage detection

When using ISPF 3.17 and selecting a file to Edit/View the codepage is correctly detected and the data is usable. When selecting the same file using Browse the codepage is not correctly detected and the data if unintelligible. This should be fixed.
9 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

SMP/E Commands with CHECK should have their own RACF Resource

SMP/E utilizes the RACF profiles for the various commands such as APPLY, ACCEPT, RESTORE. These commands provide a CHECK option which does NOT update any libraries but simply checks to see if everything is correct to proceed with the actual updati...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Health check MSGBASED

On a GDPS Metro installation there is a GDPS health checker called GDPS_CHECK_XCF that cheks for the XCF CFRM MSGBASED protocol. It raises a high priority alert whenever the LPAR that does the MSGBASED role is a KP system. However when the situati...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Future consideration

creation of a new read-only variable: &LIKE(Yes/No) for the ACS routine

With the LIKE parameter in JCL the following read-only variables are not available in the ACS-routines. &DSNTYPE &DSORG &MAXSIZE &RECORG &SIZE I would like to have a new read-only variable : &LIKE (YES/No) recognize that th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Improve the ISPF performance when listing/accessing a USS directory with a lot of files

The list or access to a USS directory containing a lot of files consumes a huge amount of CPU. The same CPU sonsumption is observed in Java programs accessing the directory
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Health Check for ATTLS

Currently the Health check for ATTLS is the same as the IPSEC health check. However it is not very useful because it does not expose many of the filters and settings used in ATTLS that are not in IPSEC
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF FTPS - storing Transfer ID permanent

Since FTPS you have to use the transfer ID and password for sending data to IBM PMRs. There is no option to save the Transfer ID and password permanent. At the moment every z/OSMF user saves his own Transfer ID and password in an text file and use...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide Rest API Interfaces for Health Checks

As a tester, it is useful for me to automate Health Checks remotely while running on the PC rather than having to use the current mechanism of invoking HZSPRINT. I think it would be also useful for general customer automation of Health Checks. We ...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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