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Create an attribute that would prevent the REVOKE of a UserID due to incorrect password attempts

Requesting the creation of an attribute that would exist on the User ID that would prevent/override the User ID from being revoked due to invalid password attempts. Any successful authentications should be allowed. Unsuccessful authentications sho...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

TSO - Simplify Reconnect by providing option to reconnect or cancel instead of re-logging on

TSO reconnect is a manual process, and should be more automated by providing an option to reconnect when a reconnect situation is detected.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

More granular setup of healthcheck RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES

Healthcheck RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES covers a lot of different resources. If one of the checks fails the whole check fails. To prevent false-postive checks on this healthcheck the only option is to deactivate the healthcheck as a whole. It would b...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Script execution entries.

It would be helpful to identify what scripts have executed in OMVS. Helps to resolve issue wrt to sript execution or failures chekcing.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Use placeholder text instead of real text for field descriptions

When you've gone to create a new workflow and the workflow editor has opened, , some fields has text in them already. The text then has to be manually deleted to get rid of it (see attached screenshot bad.png). The fields "Workflow ID", "Descripti...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm CDS/Journal Mirroring support

DFSMSrmm needs to automatically resolve CDS consistency point from journal when recovering from unplanned DR event. Consistency point of the hardware produced an event to RMM where the Journal had been updated but the CDS had not. At startup today...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Upgrade TSO STATUS command to support JES JOBGROUP

The TSO STATUS command is used to find the status of jobs previously submitted to JES. With z/OS 2.2, JES was enhanced with a new feature call JOBGROUPs. This feature allows jobs to be grouped together. Currently the STATUS command has very rudime...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

Can I get a "B"? - AVGREC=B needed

Request to expand the use of AVGREC to include a pneumonic to represent a billion records.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 6 Not under consideration

Serialization at dataset instead of VTOC for DSS DEFRAG

We use an alternative defrag solution today and are interested in vendor consolidation - using IBM's built in DSS tool would allow us to simplify our Mainframe environment.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Define shorter interval cycle for resource adjust in WLM policy

As shown in web site (WLM FAQ) and technical documents about z/OS, we understand that the interval of resource adjust in WLM policy is solid in each 10 seconds. This cycle is seems to be so long for the modernization of online transactions under C...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Not under consideration

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