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z/OSMF Incident Log should support OEM FTP

Customer is running OEM FTP software and want to use this with'Z/OSMF Incident Log',editing the JCL before is not an option for the customer.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Inventory Export of Software Instances (Software Management) for ShopZ

Currently I have to export an inventory of SMPE/e Zone by a GIMXSID job, then download it to my workstation and then upload it into shopZ. This would be quicker if there would be a possibility to get this by html download directly from z/OSMF Soft...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

avoid WTOR ICH304D like WTOR ICH302D with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.

Following APAR OA63091 (with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.) issue of WTOR ICH302D "ICH302D REPLY Y TO ALLOW ANOTHER ATTEMPT OR N TO REVOKE USERID userid." can be avoided. I propose to extend this behav...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

List of Common Event Adapter (CEA) Access Requirements

Currently, it is documented that CEA requires the RACF TRUSTED attribute. This is a concern for our Security Administrators and Auditors. We are requesting a more granular list of access requirements for CEA and elimination of the requirement that...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 1 Future consideration

AT-TLS support for limiting which client certificates that are allowed to use an specific IP port

We need to be able to use AT-TLS with client and server verification of certificates. We need to be able to limit which client certificates we allow to connect and use this IP port so that not all certificates from a CA in our truststore (keyring)...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Add a 'syntax check' function to POLICY AGENT to check syntax of policy files.

We like to have command to enable Policy Agent to do a syntax check that simulates loading a new config and syntax checking it, without impacting the current running config. Much like the TCPIP syntax check for profiles. We have a process currentl...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Ensure ASCBEJST, ASCBSRBT are cleared after last job step.

This will keep residual values from being put into SMF 30.4 and 30.5 records.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

RACF database recovery utility

In the case of primary database in error with no backup database, after restoring a copy from dump, maybe we have lost some updates. In System Programmer's Guide we can find the following text: Your database is probably back-level. To bring...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Enhance RACF type 80 Access Records to always record the module name if WHEN(PROGRAM) grants access

In the current type 80, I do not see a field to indicate the name of the module that grants the access if a conditional permit of WHEN(PROGRAM) grants access. Please enhance the type 80 access records to record the module name for success, failure...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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