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New Resource Group based on available capacity (System Scope)

All Resource Groups available today are towards a defined amount of CPU / MSU / Service units and, once defined, are flat. It would be useful for us to have the ability to define a resource group that varies with the system utilization. One use ca...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

Expanding CCA Callable Services and Crypto Express Support for zCX/OCP

Presently, there exists a limitation in invoking CCA (Common Cryptographic Architecture) callable services, particularly those pertinent to financial services, (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=services-financial) from Java applications...
6 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Define the conflicting certificates have same public key within RACF database

RACF database should have certificates with same public key to be defined. As long as certificates have different serial number, they should be consider as different certificates. Since Digicert has created two intermediate CA which have different...
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Upstream all z/OS USS ported commands (i.e. cp, grep)

z/OS is distributed with many UNIX commands, such as cp and grep. These commands, in many cases, have not evolved from when they were originally ported while the open-source version has evolved with additional capabilities and features. The z/OS c...
6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

HMC - Enable DNS over TLS or HTTPS

To implement concepts like zero-trust it must be possible to define in the TSS management console the Name Server as a secured one using DNSSEC and either DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT).
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

A JES2 Policy that scans JCL cards is required

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 02/05/2023 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: The same way as JES2 provides exits 4/54 to scan all JCL cards for a job, this is needed...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Changing "Dataset Type" from PDS to PDSE during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change the dataset type for PDS datasets shipped via ServerPac to be PDS/E. As zOS 2.5 is now shipped as a Portable Software Instance (PSI) and is installed via zOSMF Software Mana...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 4 Future consideration

Stand-alone IOCP should honour the POCID-ID field of the dynamic token even if IOCDS source has been edited.

In IOCDS source generated by z/OS HCD the 'processor ID' is included as the first field in the 'TOK' parameter of the ID statement. If an IOCDS is generated by HCD calling IOCP directly or by stand-alone IOCP using un-modified IOCDS source importe...
28 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Submitted

Provide list-of-groups functionality for access checking RACF NODES profiles

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide the capability for RACF to validate access to NODES...
28 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

Provide a more granular control over timeout Abends (S522) than SMFPRMxx JWT/SWT/SWT

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide a more granular means of controlling / protecting j...
28 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

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