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Secure Key Parsing

There is a use case where a password or key may need to be passed to a Job, Rexx, Exec or other operation securely. It would be useful to have a feature where by a key could entered when executing the operation and passed to it, possibly using som...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Open source z/OS: project OS/3

Project summary: fork z/OS into an upstream that is released as open source under the name OS/3. Why?: To bring the mainframe to the home. Big Picture: There is another project that started as weird niche enterprise software that computer science ...
2 months ago in z/OS / General 0 Under review

Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

As z/VM RACF is not sharing with z/OS anymore we need a z/VM face on RACF, remove irrelevant CLASSes

As z/VM RACF is not sharing with z/OS anymore we need a z/VM face on RACF, remove irrelevant CLASSes. IBM no longer permits the sharing of RACF DB's with z/OS and z/VM. So why have irrelevant RACF classes visible in z/VM? It is confusing when scan...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Remove all references to JES on output of RACF commands on z/VM

I consider this an incorrout defect. My idea is to remove any references to JES and additional z/OS references that have no bearing on the z/VM product. It is distracting and confusing to me a VM sysprog. As RACF is pulling apart on z/VM from the ...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

RACF throttling logon attempts before revoking

Protecting users having a password/passphrase from denial of service attack by implementing a timeout value between the failed logon attempts.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

z/OS UNIX System Services - enhance D OMVS,MF to display requester

Enhance D OMVS,MF to display the requester of the (failed) mount attempt. Currently the D OMVS,MF does not provide information on who (what userid/job) is attempting to mount a file system (and fails). In our scenario, D OMVS,MF showed that 'someo...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

ISPF SELECT PGM should be enhanced to support calling a 64 bit program

ISPF currently has no code to support calling a program in 64 bit mode. When a SELECT PGM is done the program is invoked using the LINK macro and Reg 1 is set to the parm if any is specified. AMODE64 requires using LINKX and setting the AMODE64PK=...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Extracting SMF in a single job step with a single pass of data

If I want to dump multiple different timeframes of data into an smf dataset I have to do it in multiple steps and mod'ing onto the output dataset For example if I want Type14 records from 2200 on 1st Jan to 06:00 on 3rd Jan I would have to do this...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

DSFS create command to allocate new z/OS dataset

The use of the dsfs createparm or extattr to define a prototype for new datasets is not intuitive. Suggest creating a dsfs makeds command to allocate a new ps or pds using appropriate attributes on the command. There would be no need for prototype...
12 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

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