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    AI System Services Spark AT-TLS Encryption

    Currenty, the Spark (Master/Worker) part of MLz will be configured without AT-TLS during the setup of the AI System Services Framework with the z/OSMF Workflows. In times of Zero Trust this should be changed, so that all ports (including Spark Mas...
    7 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Planned for future release

    Move the start of the AUTOR functionality earlier in the IPL process?

    Can we move the start of the AUTOR functionality earlier in the IPL process? Before joining the sysplex and/or page data sets? This would be helpful to the IBM Z Cyber Vault platform. The IBM Z Cyber Vault footprint is getting more interest, and h...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Under review

    Add TOP option to ISPF MEMLIST dialog service

    Enhance the ISPF MEMLIST dialog service to include an option such as TOP(membername) as is found in LMMDISP. This would permit the MEMLIST invocation to scroll a specified member to the top of the resulting member list. The behavior would be the s...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

    Allow pattern characters in ISPF member selection list FILTER command

    The ISPF member selection list FILTER primary command allows only a trailing wildcard such as: FILTER NAME EQ LOAD* This enhancement would permit leading, middle pattern characters, both of: * (asterisk) : zero or more characters % (percent sign) ...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

    Provide options to cancel active user sessions

    It would be beneficial to have options to cancel active user sessions in order to comply with an audit requirement. This would involve providing the following options: Enhancing the Usage Satatistics plugin by selecting a box beside a User ID, the...
    11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 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

    USS Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion support for IBM-1141 and other code pages.

    We would appreciate an enhancement in Unix System Services – Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion – so that it also works for code pages other than IBM-1047, such as IBM-1141. Currently, the following restriction exists: Only the EBCDIC IBM-1047 en...
    7 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Functionality already exists

    Currently there's no check in the COPY command for ADRDSSU to see if the data sets are the RACF databases or not

    Hi - Sometime ago, there was a problem when the data sets which contains the RACF primary and backup databases were moved using ADRDSSU. The data sets were protected as recommended by the books as well as they were assigned the PSU attribute. Howe...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Functionality already exists

    Connect command shouldn't have a default owner

    Problem When you do connects in RACF and don't specify an owner it will default to the user id of whoever executed the command, this should be changed as it is not secure and can negatively affect uptime. This becomes an issue if a security admini...
    7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

    Use EMCS console which are not Userid dependent in workflows

    The workflow "Configure AI Framework for IBM zOS" step 4 uses a EMCS console which name contains the userid ending with "CN". This means that one have to create a special user which is ending with "CN". Creating a new userid is not a as simple as ...
    9 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Future consideration

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