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z/OSMF Dynamic Vipa usage

We operate with two Tcpip stacks, one for internal customers and the other for external clients. When trying to use Dvipa for z/OSMF URL we had problems. We eventually had to add a local_override.cfg file to our configuration to have z/OSMF have a...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DFSMSHSM LIST DATASET with Cloud Object Name

We are able to get a list of the Cloud Containers / Buckets, migrated data sets, and listing of the Contain objects using the following: LIST CLOUD(cloudname) LIST LEVEL(x) LIST CLOUD(cloudname) CONTAINER(containername) Using these lists, it is st...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Allow LU, LISTGRP, LISTDSD and RLIST-commands on behalf of the owner of a component

Implementation of profiles like:- IRR.LISTGRP.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.RLIST.OWNER.owninggroup Userids granted to a profile IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.$OAB should be able, to list all dataset-profiles with Owner $OAB.This shoul...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Z/os memory usage by service class and report class

Have the RMF type 72 record include seperate fields for 4k frames, 1 MB frames and 2 GB frames used by that workload. These new fields would apply to service classes and report classes. RMF 3 STORF screen is too cumbersome to automate the capture ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

FTP SOCKS support of USERID/PASSWORD

We would like to implement FTP SOCKS authentication support (USERID/PASSWORD - METHOD x'02')
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

DFSMS dynamically assign an overflow pool using a command

The Itau bank is asking IBM DFSMS team to improve the overflow SG pool function adding a new command to assign a overflow sg dynamically.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

IDS Flood IP Address(s) Exclusion

We would like to be able to exclude an IP Address(s) for an IDS Flood Attack. We currently can only exclude and IP Address(s) on these type of attacks: TCP Queue Size Attack EE Malformed Packet Attack EE LDLC Check Attack EE Port Check Attack EE X...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

RACF ability for NO-Special-users to remove MFA from user.

We need to implement emergency procedure for MFA-users to allow access without MFA. If somebody get a call in the middle of the night, and drop the phone in the toilet before loging in … we have a serious problem. We have no Security Officers on c...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Migration data sets distinguished by different importance of the data sets.

We would like to be able to customize characteristics of migration data sets distinguished by different importance of the data sets. Currently, there is no way to configure specific migration tape data set name for different sets of files.All tape...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

Migrate to z/OSMF Deployment

Today, our shop already performs a form of deployment that isn't very conducive to migrating to utilizing z/OSMF deployments. This is the current maintenance deployment process that is utilized: Maintenance Libraries (MAINT. HLQ & CSI-tlibs-dl...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Not under consideration

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