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Granular security for DFSMSHSM modify commands

The use case: Mainframe user wants to recover his/her data sets using HSM modify command. Because the mainframe user does not have Storage Administrator permissions the recover data set command fails. Storage Administrator must protect all HSM mod...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

NFS: Support nfs4_setfacl/nfs4_getfacl and read/write named-attributes

Using NFSv4 under z/OS, there is no support for the NFS4_getfacl / NFS4_setfacl commands, and the 'n' - read-named-attributes & 'N' - write-named-attributes.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Future consideration

Audit all superuser usage

Provide the ability to audit ALL superuser usage.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Enhance filtering for SDSF RSYS

Provide enhanced filtering for the SDSF RSYS command. In particular, please allow use of a scope of JESPLEX
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Decrease the provisioning duration in ZOSMF's Capacity Provisioning Manager.

A 4-minute provisioning duration is to long for our mainframe. By the 4-minute mark we have already either shifted the workload balance between our mainframes or turned-on COD manually. We would like this dropped significantly.
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow HSM to configure the type of container that will create in the cloud for TCT.

At present HSM creates the containers in the Cloud as 'Standard' and we would like to have the option to create them as "Smart Tier".
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

mainframe vulnerability patch or ptf level equivalent information

Over the past years, there have been a regular discussion with our internal auditors about the state (and value) of a vulnerability test for the mainframe. With each audit, the internal auditors have elevated their assessments deeper and deeper in...
over 7 years ago in z/OS 5 Not under consideration

CommServer-z/OS 1.13 - cssmtp - Log Output during startup

We started the CSSMTP with a defined LOGLEVEL Value of "7" (default) and we have seen 491 Lines written to Logfile during startup and additionally another 743 Lines while shutdown. Everything is fine ! In case we set LOGLEVEL to "0" we see 467 Lin...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow batch TSO to return the MAXRC instead of the last rc seen

I have a sequence of commands, such as RACDCERT GENCERT... RACDCERT LIST cert. If the GENCERT fails, the list cert works, and I get RC = 0 from the jobstep. I have to have multiple jobsteps one for he RACDCERT GENCERT and another with RACDCERT LIS...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Add CSA Information to SMF Record Type 30 Data

Please add SQA/ESQA/CSA/ECSA utilisation data to SMF type 30 records. We often need to understand SQA/ESQA/CSA/ECSA utilisation changes over time but SMF data doesn't provide that level of detail.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Future consideration

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