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Group Connected To Groups

Want to have one group that uses RBAC (Role Based Access control) for the purpose of access control.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Restore Docker Daemon logging levels by suppressing confidential user config.json information

Currently the Docker Daemon dumps the contents of a user's config.json file into the zCX joblog (SYSPRINT) if there is a syntax error in the Dockerfile (e.g. missing "\" continuation on RUN command or perhaps other situations). The user's config.j...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

The background color can't be changed on z/OSMF WebISPF.

The background color can't be changed on z/OSMF WebISPF, it should be useful it's color can be changed to black so one can work efficiently as traditional ISPF
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Operator Command for refreshing keyrings used by AT-TLS

We have over 200 certificates that we use in our different environments every day with AT-TLS. Since we require to update these certificates once a year. To keep from taking an outage we have to go into z/OSMF and update the key ring instance then...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add GIT functionality when using "dataset and file search"

It would be very handy if a GIT plugin would be available to perform GIT functions on USS files. In our shop we use GIT for version control for some of our configuration files. We now use other interfaces to issue the GIT commands but it would be ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workflow Editor Should Support Longer Step Description

We create rich-text descriptions for our workflow steps. They look great when displayed by the z/OSMF Workflow task. Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to make minor text corrections using the workflow editor as it supports only very short ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Change variable substitution of 'location of file template' at step time instead of workflow creation time.

Variable substitution is possible for the "Location of file template" option for Step type "File Template". The actual substitution is performed at workflow creating time and can no longer be altered while the workflow is running. The variable spe...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zERT Manage Database

Under zERT Manage Database, provide additional pruning operation abilities based upon an import label number identifier, and / or the System or LPAR name. This will be in addition to the current Prune Database options available.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

SNA support of Hipersockets

Our customer runs Communication Server on z/Linux to communicate with z/OS VTAM.Now, they connect Communications Server on z/Linux and VTAM on z/OS with OSA-Express card(SNA protocol).But, they hope to connect with Hipersockets, but Hipersockets d...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

Enhance IDCAMS error reporting - IDC3027I

We recently had a problem where the VTOC was full or near full on multiple volumes. Many batch jobs were failing when attempting to do an IDCAMS DEFINE and IDCAMS was generating the following message: IDC3027I NO SPACE IN VTOC OR VTOC INDEX The Pr...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

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