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ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - provided tokens

Currently when two tokens are provided for the validation whereas one is not valid, IFASMFDP only issues:VALIDATION FAILED: RECORDED AND SUPPLIED CRYPTO OPTIONS DO NOT MATCHbut the program would know if the SGINVALIDATE or the ASIGNVALIDATE token ...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - in regards of inconsistent records

When running a Validation report for a full day and message IFA742I is issued it only tells me:VALIDATION FAILED: INCONSISTENT RECORDS - RECORDS DO NOT MATCH EXPECTED TIMES However, the day has 24h hours, split into 15min SMF interval leading to 9...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Functionality already exists

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

z/OSMF can generate and validate JWTs, but the JWTs are only valid with z/OSMF itself. If z/OSMF could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add Support For Read Only 3390 DASD When Running In LPAR

Maintenance of base and middleware on z/OS systems in my shop is performed on a master system. When new z/OS systems are created, these master volumes are copied to the new system. The cloned system LPARs quickly get out of sync with the master sy...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

JES2EDS : add card SYSTCPD to specifiy stack affinity

Hello, Our TCPIP is the default stack and the RESOLVER has this definition. We would use JES2EDS on secondary stack TCPIPA. Because our z/OSMF uses stack TCPIPA. Usually we need to add a SYSTCPD DD on the proc to force the use of this specific fil...
2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Needs more information

Concurrent Copy SDM_TE search enhancement

The Concurrent Copy SDM_TE searches get worse the more Point-In-Time track images are stored in the ANTMAIN dataspaces. This delays the Concurrent Copy request past the expected completion time. In our case, what was expected to be 5 to 6 hours of...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Future consideration

STP handle multiple DST dates

Z15 with multiple LPARs using multiple daylight savings dates. Meaning some are US Central, US Eastern which can be setup using the Image profile time offset and be automatically changed using STP Daylight savings option as their DST falls on the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Server Time Protocol (STP) 5 Not under consideration

Add version number next to component levels in APAR pages

Scenario: you are a new MVS system programmer tasked to obtain the PTF for a specific APAR. You go to IBM Support, search for the APAR number/name and find the APAR page. For example if we take the page for APAR OA62703 it lists the following fixe...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Service 1 Future consideration

HSM buckets characteristics to comply Security CLOUD CIS IBM (Cloud Internet Services)

Hi, To comply with the security rules (CIS) required by the CLOUD CIS IBM, we need these buckets (stored in the IBM COS) to be created with certain characteristics, but in the HSM it is not allowed to parameterize or modify the creation characteri...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

The ability to choose which LPAR is designated the Master in a z/OS Basic HyperSwap Session where multiple LPARs of a Sysplex are active in that HyperSwap Session via parmlib member.

I want the ability to designate a specific LPAR to be the Master in a Basic HyperSwap environment via a parmlib member. Right now, I just go to the LPAR which I would like to be the Master and then just issue a ro *other,p hsib and wait for the *I...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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