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Limit UAUDIT logging

Provide a means to limit logging by UAUDIT users. Specifically, do not log DIRSRCH events for UAUDIT users.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Change the allocation area of BSAM DECB/DCBE/IOB (IGGSAQS/IGGSAQE) to above 16MB

System Environmentz/OS V2.2, Db2z V10SWA=ABOVEBatch JOB Region SIZE = 0MUse Extended TIOT We use Db2z V10(NFM) and try to REORG TABLESPACE, but REORG JOB is abend with S878.The table have 372 partitions each partition have 8 auxiliary tables for L...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF System Variables Service should support sysplex scouped variables

Z/OSMF offers a REST API to its own system variable service. Unfortuanally it only supports variables with an scope of system. To get a variables value you have to request an URI pattern like GET /zosmf/variables/rest/<version>/systems/<s...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

REST API Extensibility

zOSMF should provide a way to register and unregister custom API handlers for users and vendors. This feature would allow users to create their own API handlers in whatever language they want and leverage the authentication and existing REST capab...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Improve USS_PARMLIB Healthcheck to allow for async mounts

Healthcheck USS_PARMLIB flags an exception for filesystems that are mounted asynchronously. The error is 'Path not found. RC=00000070 RSN=05940350'. However, by the time the check runs again, the file system is mounted so the check is successful. ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Unable to connect to z/OS Container Extension(zCX) from the WAN

The zCX default bridge subnet 172.17.0.0/16 causes conflicts (sometimes and always in our case) to the WAN workstations IP addresses. We request an enhancement or user customisation to avoid subnet conflicts when identified.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Make PassTicket Java library thread-safe

The segmentation error may occur when calling IRRRacf.jar to generate a PassTicket in Java. This happens when a Java service is under heavy load and PassTickets are generated concurrently. Could you enhance PassTicket generation in Java to be thre...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

z/OS Job/Task Level CSA/ECSA/SQA/ESQA/PVT/EPVT usage

Currently SMF Type30 record does not have any field that shows job or task level CSA, ECSA, SQA, ESQA, Private and e-Private usage. These metrics are only available at LPAR level which is not helpful to trouble shoot or monitoring these metrics. R...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 3 Future consideration

Attempting to use SPACE CONSTRAINT RELIEF dataclas atribute allocation after a failed multi-striping allocation

To attempt SPACE CONSTRAINT RELIEF single-striping allocation after a failed multi-striping allocation. As the level2 support had explained in PMR 50100,228,631 , when a multi-striped sequential dataset allocation fails ( Sustained Data Rate great...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

RACF search filters should not consider wildcards (*) as a character towards the 8 character limit

Often, when using products like LDAP, wildcard filters are used to return a number of matching entries. RACF user IDs have an 8 character limit so a client would expect that a search for *1234567* would work, since a * can be nothing or something ...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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