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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 more than this value. So, Inactivity should be helpful to be defined as group att...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

RACF REST API

It would be really useful if RACF or z/OSMF provided an optional extension of sorts where you could check if profiles, users, and so on exists in RACF as well as get general information about the security setup either through a REST API and/or a P...
18 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

ACEE Modification Detection events to SMF

Having an ACEE modification event generate an SMF record would be helpful to an organization's SOC team or any SIEM solution. Today the only way to generate an actionable alert is to roll your own automation and build an actionable event based on ...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
9 months ago in z/OS / LE 4 Future consideration

Enhancements for IBM Z HMC Messages & Audit Log Management via Remote Syslog Server

HSBC is looking to use the remote SYSLOG capability on HMC to improve the observability on the healthiness of the automated processes running within the HMC and the overall healthiness of the processor hardware. In the process of setting up the ne...
10 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

Provide support for Folders or Filtering for Protected Datasets in zOS Change Tracker

If there is a large number of Protected Datasets and a user is only interested in being able to see a selection of them, there is currently no way to create a customised selection (via a Folder or Filtering) of the datasets the user is only intere...
28 days ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

Signed SMF Records - Improvement of the Validation Process with IFASMFDL

Currently one has to follow the below steps to activate and validate signed SMF records (According: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=records-setting-up-using-digitally-signed-smf).The basic steps to set up and use digitally signed SMF r...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

RMF Spreadsheet Reporter: remove dependency on RepIntStr for RepTrdStr to obtain updated CF data

With the current design of the 'RepTrdStr' tab, users have no idea on why CF data is missing or CF structures not appear in the available list if they do not first use the 'RepIntStr' to access the data. It will be helpful to make this implicit fo...
11 days ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Submitted

Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

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