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More granularity to secure JES2 commands

Nowadays you can only protect who can CANCEL any BATCH, any STC or any TSO in global but not by any other filter; for example: FORCE parameter, jobname,… If you have permission to the JES2.CANCEL.BAT resource, you can cancel any JOB. It would be i...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 45 Future consideration

Bypass compression of encrypted and uncompressed datasets in DFDSS DUMP

During DUMP processing, if ZCOMPRESS is specified allow DFDSS to bypass ZEDC compression if the dataset being dumped is encrypted but NOT compressed prior to encryption
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Allow GDGORDER to LIFO and FIFO with Relative GEN Reference

With z/OS V2.1 I can now specify GDGORDER=LIFO or GDGORDER=FIFO. Only that is for the base of the GDG. I would like to be able to specify//DD1 DD DISP=SHR,GDGORDER=FIFO,DSN=GDG(0) Then the GDG order would apply to the earliest entry instead of the...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 4 Not under consideration

zCX SSH x11 forwarding using xauth & magic cookie

In our shop x11 to the X-Server running on our personal PC is blocked by the firewall for security reasons. For this reason we've to use x11 forwarding with magic cookie & xauth session authentication. Also, X11UseLocalhost no have to be speci...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

HMC/HMA & Radius Authentication

Update/modification to Idea ZL1S-I-400. The client is requesting HMC/HMA support/integration for Radius Authentication. This needs to address the scenario where there is no z/OS available in the environment (i.e., therefore not dependent on MFA).
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

Create Alias for all datasets when installing new z/OS

Hi Last time I installed z/OS 2.5 all datasets was defined with an Alias but not this time with install of z/OS 3.1. the answer I got from case TS014843200 was: Its working as designed. Data sets which can be referenced using the volume, like PDSe...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

SuperC WORKSIZE option as ISPF configuration option

Like its sibling in the assembler toolkit, SuperC allows setting a WORKSIZE, which if not specified defaults to 64000. The default value of 64000 has probably been there since the program came into existence, and storage came at a premium. It woul...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance ISPF Workplace to natively accept USS paths

ISPF Workplace allows you to perform all varieties of interaction with datasets from a single place. It does not natively support USS path names, assuming instead that any path entered is for the Workstation, via the Workstation Agent. Enhance the...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Ability to pull ACP tracking report using ICSF callable service. Adding report generation to ICSF ACP panel.

2 related requests as part of this RFE: 1. ACP tracking report(Across LPARs) generation/extraction using ICSF callable service, which can then be utilized by a batch job or any online (CICS/IMS) job/screen. 2. Adding report generation capability i...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Native REST API for Administration and Reporting against RACF Databases

A native REST API for administration and reporting against RACF would be extremely helpful for automation and product flexibility. Example functions would be CRUD against user ID's/OMVS segments, CRUD for dataset/resource rules, and modifying grou...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

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