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PFITS0812-1528 RACF certificate NOTRUST risk due to automatic time conversation local time / UTC

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bernd.Daubner@izb.deSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik Technical Services (FI-TS) PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFITS0812-1528 RACF certificate NOTRUST risk due to automatic time conversation local time / UT...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

TKDS Support with Encryption Facility

Encryption Facility (EF) currently supports the ICSF CKDS and PKDS. The TKDS was implemented in ICSF after the initial EF support. Would be great to add that final KDS to the list of supported key stores.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

Requests for improvement : please set the selection to change NODELAYACKS / DELAYACKS even when the response mode.

I can set NODELAYACKS / DELAYACKS the PORT statement in TCPIP Profile, but it becomes NODELAYACKS forces if the response mode is requested.I understand that this logic that has been implemented to improve performance. However, NODELAYACKS is force...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Dual Control use of keys with RACF

Admin actions that authorize the use of keys should require dual controlSupport configuration that requires 2 security administrators to authorize the use of a key.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Not under consideration

Health Check for RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES

Would like to be able to differentiate results from the IBM Health Checker RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES check. It currently provides an error message IRRH204E if either a sensitive dataset has ID(*) or UACC greater than read, those flagged with an "E"...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

NFS Server Tracing Check using MVS Health Checker

Our company uses zNFS to facilitate data transfers between z/OS and AIX servers. Our zNFS servers always used to run with the default CTINFS00 settings: Info, Warning, Error, and FFDC (mode="ON"). Following a recent incident in our production envi...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Not under consideration

NFS Server Enhanced Activity Display

Our company uses zNFS to facilitate data transfers between z/OS and AIX servers. Currently, when problems arise, the zNFS server starts to loop. We have very limited real-time display commands available to determine the root cause of the problem. ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Not under consideration

Autoreserve BPXPRM INADDRANYPORTS

In BPXPRMXX you can specify INADDRANYPORT which is used for bind calls. The stack has no indication that these ports have been reserved for this use and you can put a port definition in place without error. however when you attempt to use the port...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

TN3270 access to require user logon to capture user credentials

We'd like TN3270 access to capture a user's security credentials (logon). Tracking users after a TN3270 connection is extremely difficult. We'd like the ability to have their Id available at connection time.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

dfhsm HRecover

DFHSM currently allows HRECOVER commands to be issued on a d/s or per volume basis. Rqmnt: Provide the capability to use dfhsm HRECOVER command to recover an entire Storage Group with a single command.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration