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WTO enhancement to confirm the unplanned hyperswap test through the command “SETIOS HYPERSWAP”

The command “SETIOS HYPERSWAP” doesn’t have a WTO confirmation prior to run the unplanned hyperswap test. So, this RFE is to request an enhancement/implementation of a WTO message confirmation to prompt the user to confirm or not the unplanned hyp...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Not under consideration

Preview mode for Policy Agent

“Northern Trust wants a “preview mode” for Policy Agent. They would like Policy’s to have the ability to preview what would happen if this policy was active. In preview mode, if this policy was active, this would have happened “x” number of times....
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add a COMMENT keyword to all RACF commands

Add a COMMENT (or 'REASON' or 'TRACKING' etc) keyword to all RACF commands and place the keyword text in the SMF record for that command.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow LU, LISTGRP, LISTDSD and RLIST-commands on behalf of the owner of a component

Implementation of profiles like:- IRR.LISTGRP.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.RLIST.OWNER.owninggroup Userids granted to a profile IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.$OAB should be able, to list all dataset-profiles with Owner $OAB.This shoul...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

FTP SOCKS support of USERID/PASSWORD

We would like to implement FTP SOCKS authentication support (USERID/PASSWORD - METHOD x'02')
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

RACF ability for NO-Special-users to remove MFA from user.

We need to implement emergency procedure for MFA-users to allow access without MFA. If somebody get a call in the middle of the night, and drop the phone in the toilet before loging in … we have a serious problem. We have no Security Officers on c...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

IDS Flood IP Address(s) Exclusion

We would like to be able to exclude an IP Address(s) for an IDS Flood Attack. We currently can only exclude and IP Address(s) on these type of attacks: TCP Queue Size Attack EE Malformed Packet Attack EE LDLC Check Attack EE Port Check Attack EE X...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Migrate to z/OSMF Deployment

Today, our shop already performs a form of deployment that isn't very conducive to migrating to utilizing z/OSMF deployments. This is the current maintenance deployment process that is utilized: Maintenance Libraries (MAINT. HLQ & CSI-tlibs-dl...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Not under consideration

Would like to see messages IGGN307I and IEA712I made highlighted and non scrollable during IPL

It would prevent issues post IPL with missing LPA libraries
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Password Policy per user basis

Right now, we could set the following control globally. Inactive revoke, password minimum change interval Is it possible to set it down to the user level? There might be some use cases in a system that different user ID having different requiremen...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration