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Enhance Report of IFASMFDL

IBM Redbook SG247919 includes three SMF user exits SMFDPUX3, SMFDPUX2 and SMFDPUX1 which show a much more detailled report of the records dumped as the standard record does. The report includes the subtypes and the system ID where the record came ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Have TN3270 Task to provide a Count Down message when a Certificate that is cached it should provide messages on the cert and expiration

The CERT is cached when the TN3270 is started. When that cert is nearing expiration (30 days or less) there are no messages in TN3270 that state the cert is about to expire. Or how many days it is until expiration. Or what the name of the cert tha...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Our internal security group has removed support for 'AuthType Basic'. I have been told that IBM HTTP Server only supports AuthType Basic. We currently have an exception in place, for our software package that relies on IBM HTTP. I believe that IBM HTTP should be update to support other/valid AuthType settings. Please see IBM case # TS011728903. I was mistaken in my thought we were using Websphere.

At the current time, our one application (vendor provided) would not function (with user validation) without AuthType Basic. I could turn off authentication, but that is not a desired option. Our workaround will only be in place temporarily.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / http server 0 Future consideration

ACS Read Only Variable for RECFM

The need for RECFM read only ACS variable. Some physical sequential files are not eligible to be Extended Format or can advantage z/EDC. This exception is particularly true for RECFM=FS (Fix Spanned). A &RECFM read only variable would make it ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

zERT Long running reports - Next to Impossible in the current state of zERT

Hi zERT is mainly used to get a cryptographic picture of the systems we manage. That inherently means it is used to analyze the entire TCPIP traffic on the stacks. Now with this much data going in as the input and we in our shop make it a lean ext...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance JCL TYPRUN=SCAN testing to JES2 Symbol Replace in Instream Data

In z/OS 2.1 TYPRUN=SCAN finds more Job Errors if INTERPRET JES is activated in JESparm. This is nice, but i´ld like to see an additional enhancement related to z/OS 2.1 JES2 Symbol Replacement in Instream Data using//xyz DD *,SYMBOLS=(...) TYPRUN=...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Restrict ability to manage UNIX file security

Provide a RACF resource to limit who is allowed to change certain security attributes (primarily, owner, permission bits, and acls) of a z/OS UNIX file or directory. As with the existing FSACCESS protection, this mechanism should work at the level...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Cipher preference order when using JCECCARACFKS

When using JCECCARACFKS for pgp certificate creation, EF is not honoring on export option -eA racf algorithms for cipher preference order. Neither does it help when overriding those options for encryption and hashing algorithms with -cipher-name o...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Not under consideration

DFSMSrmm add support for MGMTCLAS in DEFTABLE

Currently in DEFTABLE(EDGDEFxx) you can assign VRSVALUE/Management Value but you cannot assign a MGMTCLAS(Management Class). Only way you can do this is via SMS Management Class ACS routine. By allowing to override JCL specified MGMTCLAS or assign...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

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