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Provide more granularity for control access to different paths under /global/zosmf

There is a need to distinguish between zOSMF ADMIN GROUP (IZUADMIN) and the USS OWNER GROUP of z/OSMF's USER_DIR path. Users defined in the z/OSMF administrator's group (IZUADMIN) should NOT necessarily have access to all the USS directories under...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ALL ISPF Member Lists with PDSE Member Generation Support

Enhance ISPF member lists, however and where ever generated, to include PDSE member generations in a seamless display.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

zCX/Openshift Multi-Architectur Support with VMWare & zCX

With OpenShift 4.14, OpenShift supports Multi-Architectur setup with the Control Nodes on x86 and e.g. Worker Nodes on s390x (zCX). Unfortunately, VMWare is a not supported plattform. Without that support, we'll never get the chance to go to produ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

IRR.PASSWORD.RESET profile should be provide more flexibility

CONTROL access to the profile permits to a user to: 1) Reset a password with NOEXPIRED operand or 2) Reset the password or password phrase within the minimum change interval for a user who does not have the SPECIAL, OPERATIONS, AUDITOR, or PROTECT...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow cp command to access output PDS as DISP=SHR

Currently, the cp command, when copying to a PDS, accesses the library using DISP=OLD. It therefore fails if someone is editing a member in that PDS or even browsing it. Need a way to access the PDS using DISP=SHR, so the cp command will work in t...
4 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Not under consideration

Enhance zfsadm shrink command

Enhance zfsadm shrink command to give the new size not only in K-bytes but also by a percentage value based on the current size. For example a value of 50 to reduce to half the size. This would allow to have an automated process to reduce size of ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Future consideration

Add a specific CSF messages id to monitor the correct/(or not) initialization/start-up) of the CSFTTCP started task

Dear, In order to monitor the start-up of the CSFTTCP adress space with CA-OPSMVS automate and according to our standards we would like to have the possibility that CSFTTCP started task generates to the console specific messageids for the correct(...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Use more frequent commits when importing SMF data in to the zNA database to reduce Db2 resource consumption

Committing every 1000 inserts would be a good starting point This number needs to be customizable so we can adjust based on our needs as workloads and reporting needs change over time Our preferred solution to the lack of commits would be to use t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Rust Language Support for z/OS

Rust is a very powerful, memory safe system programming language that would be extremely useful on the mainframe platform. Rust would also be able to use existing z/OS C libraries as it natively supports linking to C libraries. My hope would be s...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 2 Not under consideration

ACCEPT, REJECT, RESTORE SYSMODs using Software Update

The ability to ACCEPT, REJECT, and RESTORE SYSMODs using Software Update. Currently requires the user to do it manually outside of the Software Update interface.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration