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RMF Postprocessor Device Activity report filter option enhancements

In the Post Processor Device Activity report, we would like to have filter options for volsers, either as an include or exclude filter/statement.And for storage groups, we would like to have generic storage group filters like SG(PROD*) and an opti...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

NFS server attribute to list or suppress migrated datasets

We would like an attribute made available to NFS that would allow us the option to either list or suppress migrated datasets, currently users listing mainframe datasets via an NFS mount are presented with not only datasets presently on disk, but a...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Future consideration

Add support to Encryption Facility OpenPGP for OpenPGP certificates with public keys to be stored in RACF

Support better security than keys stored in USS. We want to keep our public and private keys in our Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)/RACF. Encryption Facility provides for writing OpenPGP public keys to a USS for or to JAVA keys stores. It does ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Remove 1000 REST request restriction for one zosmf TSO adress space

ZOSMF starts a TSO Adress space to handle rest requests. In CEA there is a session reuse setting. But even if this session reuse settings have highest values there is another hardcoded limitationOne TSO AS can handle only 1000 requests. So this ma...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Display GRS,RNL command should explicitly show all information for RNAME

We experienced an issue caused by the incorrect specification of RNL values for catalogs being shared outside of the plex. We were aware of the need to pad the value to 20 or 44 depending on the catalog name but the name was miscounted. In diagnos...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Future consideration

Enhance SDSF limitation for IEESYSAS started tasks

Implement a customization option to permit SDSF commands DA (Active users) ou ST (Status of jobs) to show as JOBNAME the name of the creating AS (like any system AS, user AS, BPXAS or IEESYSAS) or the name of the child task when started by BPXAS o...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

USS panel BPXWP20 "Work with Mounted File Systems" does not show the mount hierarchies.

It would be nice to see the hierarchy of mount points on the BPXWP20. An intuitive/topological presentation of file systems would be very helpful. The practical purpose would be unmounting an FS that has child mount points to other FS'es. For exam...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Enable digitally signed SMF record validation for shutdown/IPL

We create daily SMF dump file with digitally signed SMF records. We then validate (SIGVALIDATE) these files with IFASMFDP. When we shutdown/IPL the system we are not able to successfully validate the SMF dump file of that day.We need to be able to...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Not under consideration

Increase PKI Services ?Requestor Field' limitation

To increase PKI ‘Requestor Field' limitation to accept more than 32 characters (email address)
over 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Not under consideration

Increase timeout value when starting a CEA address space

When the following error is received it means that z/OSMF has timed out when it is waiting for a CEA address space to start SEVERE:Failed to create TSO AS with TsoController.startTsoWithCmd(). retryCount=5, isReady=false isPrompt=false, TSO data: ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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