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Provide support in RACF to add and list extended key usage (EKU)

Currently RACF does not allow to add extended key usage in a certificate. It also can not list. However working with TLS 1.3, it is necessary to have clientAuth in extended key usage. It is not desired to use old Java keytool or openssl to g...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

Add invoked omvs command to 3.17 command results display

Under ISPF 3.17 one can, if enabled, issue OMVS commands and have the results appear in ISPF Browse or View. It would be very helpful to add to the display the full command that was issued. This is especially helpful if the results are printed/cop...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Prevent LPAR definitions that would span CPC drawers

When configuring LPAR definitions for a CEC via the HMC, logic should exist to prevent customers from specifying a configuration of zIIPs, CPs, and weight that would result in an LPAR that spans drawers. Basically, perform the calculations for the...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Add a last login timestamp attribute for z/OS LDAP.

The z/OS LDAP server would be greatly enhanced by including a password policy operational attribute called pwdLastLogin which contains a dated timestamp of the last time an entry has logged in to the server.
10 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Consistent Read from Secondary - decision making in response to poor performance/hardware health changes

Our current understanding is that to exploit the DS8K's consistent read from secondary function, IOS currently sends some queries out at Hyperswap enable time in order to determine at the LCU boundary whether reads should be directed to the PPRC p...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Improve Health Check for RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION

We run ISKLM server on z/OS to maintain tape encryption keys. Expired certificates should stay in then keyring until they are not used anymore. Expired certificates possibly stay a long time in the keyring. RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION becomes seve...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Future consideration

data collection at DS8000 and RMF Reporting with Ethernet Throughput (in/out) with TCT (transparent Cloud Tiering)

We are using TCT Ethernet Activities not externalized by DS8000 Reporting of Ethernet transfer (in/out) at DS8000 Ethernet-Ports is required to monitor and to plan infrastructure
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

Add SNMP v3 support for BCPii to communicate with Support Element

IT Security is very very important nowadays. SNMP v3 is a state of art security standard over SNMP v2. Right now, both HMC and SE support SNMP v3 for API call. Should enhance z/OS BCPii feature to support SNMP v3 as well.
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Not under consideration

Clean up the DSFS dsadm query reporting

In the DSFS product the dsadm query has a number of reports. The issue is that the heading format is inconsistent. examples: compression has no header metacache has a header but no dashed line below it some have no space before the header so if mu...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

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