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sudo incidents should be reported

If a user, that is not in the sudo group tries to issue a sudo it looks like this: user@server:~$ sudo mkdir /test[sudo] password for user:user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. But as I was told in case TS004442144 this ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Support LogFilter for ibm-filterSubject

Currently, we can set a logfilter for an IP-Adress by using / F ldapuxsl, LOG FILTER,(IBM-FILTERIP=1.2.3.4) In the ACL documentation we find additional filters that can be set for ACLs, for example ibm-filterSubject. Having the Subject filter also...
4 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Tape volume output on UIM should contains DSNAME of dumped files

I use UIM exit to keep some information during a DFDSS DUMP function. During DUMP process, on UIM exit, i can have only information about the ddname and volser where the DUMP file created by dfdss resides. Now, with UIM exit there is no way to hav...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Workflow Syntax Check for input variables

Currently, z/OSMF seems to not be able to check input fields for the correct syntax. In case of wrong input fields, z/OSMF just accepts the input and continues. This is even worse in case of e.g. provisioning a black box like zCX. For example: zCX...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 3 Future consideration

CSSMTP Check SMTP Mail Addresses

CSSMTP does not have a function to control the usage of Sender- and Destination Mail addresses specified in the SMTP-Headers (for example MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, FROM:, TO:, etc.). The check must be based on the RACF user ID with which the JES spool...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

To reject or abend for incorrectly using same dataset for input and output

Have option to control (system level/step control) reject or abend for incorrectly using same dataset for input and output, when no sorting is performend, hence it risk to have inaccurate data. This will avoid developer wrongly coding caused data ...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

REST-API to IBM zERT Network Analyzer

Expose the IBM zERT Network Analyzer plugin to RESTful API in order to automate some "manual" work.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

add TLS1.3 to OSA-ICC

In OSA-ICC we know that in the panel configuration option when you edit server configuration, when you check the TLS version it only goes to TLS 1.2. We have a requirement to go to TLS 1.3 or above
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Modify IKJPARS so that the parse service routine obtain storage above the line

DFSMSrmm is not able to load a large defaults table. DFSMSrmm is abending with S878 and in some cases DFSMSrmm can't be restartet and an IPL is needed. See the details in case TS016867492. We have converted a retention file with 13.300 entries to ...
4 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

Asymmetric key encrypted data to Symmetric key encrypted data encryption(and reverse) - new API function

We have a use case today to decrypt an RSA public key encrypted payload and re-encrypt it with a symmetric key without exposing the payload in the clear out side of ICSF
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Submitted

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