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RACF Password Settings need to include Complexity, Examples: 1. To prevent the use of 3 repeating or sequential characters. 2. Avoid specific words such as User Name / Name of Service. 3. Prevent the use of passwords obtained from previous breaches.

Audit requires ability for specific Complexity settings as listed in my Idea above and beyond RACF specific Password settings. Examples: 1. To prevent the use of 3 repeating or sequential characters. 2. Avoid specific words such as User Name / Nam...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allow the LASTCOPY of Copypool backup to expire

Currently, DFHSM will not "EXPIRE" the last copy of a Copypool backup. It flags the tapes as EXPIRE but does not truly expire the tapes. Manual commands must be executed in order to truly expire the backup tapes of the last copy of a copypool.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

LE storage report STACK64 option new feature

The Maximum used by all concurrent threads is to count active thread number which is counted after thread initialization before thread termination and could handle the workload. We need one thread number statistics value align with the stack lifet...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the moddvipa utility to work with (virtual) hostnames.

The z/OS Communication Server utility"moddvipa" works only with IP's. It should be enhanced to also accept a real or virtual hostname to be independent from the IP which is assigned to the hostname.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

Devsup Report of all parameters including defaults

Have one report to display all the fields and value for all parameters that are in DEVSUP member. Today, we have to doc the multiple places to validate fields. See use case.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 2 Planned for future release

Eliminate RACINIT 108 error on JWT expiration

When performing a multi-step, e.g RADIUS Challenge/Response MFA Authentication with the IDTDATA SAF Class activated, if the user waits for more than the JWT lefetime between steps, the user sees a quick flash of the message:IKJ56416I RACF RACINIT ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Provide AT-TLS capability to connect with different SNIs to same RemoteAddr

Cloud service providers can provide multiple instances of the same service behind an ingres node that can be addressed by specifying their individual virtual host names for each instance in the SNI headers (server name indicator). Multiple virtual...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST Services - Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters

Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters, as a way to indicate that we have files that already contain the NEWLINE characters so that no additional NEWLINE characters get added.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Logon-ability with a Business Role

Definition of a Member-Class, the profiles are the name of the Business-Role, the members are group-names that represent different access-rights.Example:Profile: RACF-SystemadministratorMember:#TSOBASE Group for TSO-Basic-Rights#SDSF001 Group for ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IKED joblog

It would be immensely helpful in a troubleshooting situation to have timestamps in the job log of the IKE daemon.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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