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RACF control to allow or disallow copying of data from an encrypted dataset to an unencrypted dataset

Today if a person has access to a key label there are no controls in place to limit their ability to copy an encrypted dataset to a dataset with no DFP segment in it's RACF dataset profile. When this is the case the dataset is unencrypted when wri...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

Support Element BCPii should notify the operating system when the CPC is put into and out of SERVICE mode

The BCPii in the z16 processor was enhanced to notify the operating system that the SE is unavailable when it is rebooting and when it is back online and available to be used. Use case was so that Operations didn't have to manually suspend BCPii v...
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

HSM detaches lower level data mover tasks and produces hundreths of BPXP018I THREAD tttttt, IN PROCESS ppppp ENDED WITHOUT BEING UNDUBBED WITH COMPLETION CODE 0033E000 AND REASON CODE 00000000

During file backup we get hundreths of BPXP018I with COMPLETION CODE 0033E000. When this is the way how HSM works it would be great to change it and avoid all this messages as the backup function in HSM ends correctly. Putting the BPX018I into MPF...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

RTM fencing storage for CANCEL command per TS014858949

Per TS014858949, we are requesting RTM fencing off a piece of storage to be able to issue the CANCEL command when memory is an issue. This sounds practical and safe to implement, and we could benefit from such an improvement.
12 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

Desirable new feature: GROUP revoke inactive days and consequently new user inactivity policy

We have set SETROPTS INACTIVE(60) and this is applicable for all users. However, we have some specific users with the requirement not to be revoked after 60 days but at different than this value. So, Inactivity should be helpful to be defined as g...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

Prevent sysplex outage in case of a loss of x-site DASD conn. affecting CFRM CDS's and x-site signaling conn. is maintained

When a system at site 2 first notices a loss of a CDS (primary, since that CDS is usually at site 1), it will broadcast a signal to other systems to initiate removal of the primary. The site 1 systems will dutifully do so but since all connectivit...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Option to allow z/OSMF dataset API to return error message rather then HTTP error response code

When we use a client to make numerous z/OSMF API dataset calls, if an error HTTP response code is returned, z/OSMF ( Liberty ) closes the established TCPIP connection. This is expected Liberty behaviour as this conforms to the published open RFC s...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zCX: Allow specification of TZ variable during provisioning / same time zone for all users

According to the zCX Users Guide every user can set TZ= environment variable to set the time zone. This would be required after every login or by changing the login script. This has to be done on a user base. It would be better if a central TZ= en...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA for legacy policies

When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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