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    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 ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    SMF80 record to include client IP address independent of application

    z/OS is the most valuable platform in kind of security and auditing. In times of Zero Trust it must be possible to see the identiy and source of a login by a client. Currently, you've to check wich application was used to login to z/OS to find the...
    6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    Prevent User to be revoked from a RRSF side because of inactivity on this side

    We have a RACF RRSF network via our sysplexs. We have users who usually only logon in one sysplex. However, in rare situations it can happen that the same user has to logon in another sysplex. RRSF synchronizes the password for this user, but the ...
    8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for HTML in ASCII mode

    ISPF highlighting should support highlighting HTML in ASCII mode. With the growth of HTML files in USS that appear in ASCII mode, ISPF support of these files makes sense. HTML coders will benefit, as well as the entire ISPF ecosystem.
    29 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for Natural

    ISPF Highlighting should support Natural code. This will improve productivity for Natural coders and will generally benefit the entire ISPF ecosystem.
    29 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

    SMF - Add additional parameter to dump 30min before/after midnight

    The dump utility IFASMFDL/P require a (new) parameter when dumping a full day to include 30min before the day and 30min after the day to avoid the need to dump 3 days worth of data to validate a single day.This would be partially related to anothe...
    6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

    SMF record full day validation with DATE and DUMP option

    Currently the IBM recommended way to verify SMF signatures is to use RELATIVEDATE and ARCHIVE which is not the perfect solution for all situations. We need the same support as introduced with OA57046 as well for DATE and DUMP options. This because...
    6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

    Check that RVARY password is regularly changed by administrator

    In order to keep systems secure and avoid static unchanged password for RVARY commands it would be nice if we could audit the fact when RVARY password was last changed. In past it was visible that hash in RCVT changed, for security reasons is no l...
    6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

    Enhanced monitoring of VSAM RLS activity using z/OSMF interface

    Whenever there is a need to check SMSVSAM health for contention, locks response times and record queues one has to rely upon console commands usually routed to all the LPARs that run RLS workload in order to have a big picture of what is going on....
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

    Allow RESTORE with REPLACEUNCONDITIONAL of source single-volume sequential to multi-volume pre-allocated target

    RESTORE of Non-VSAM data set causes diagnostic: ADR380E (002)-FRLBO(19), DATA SET USERID.TEST.SEQ1 NOT PROCESSED, 80 Data set was allocated with DATACLAS allowing 20 candidate DASD volumes, of which 1 was used to contain a number of data extents. ...
    4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

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