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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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Asymmetric key encrypted data to Symmetric key encrypted data encryption(and reverse) - new API function

We have a use case today to decrypt an RSA public key encrypted payload and re-encrypt it with a symmetric key without exposing the payload in the clear out side of ICSF
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Submitted

Define the conflicting certificates have same public key within RACF database

RACF database should have certificates with same public key to be defined. As long as certificates have different serial number, they should be consider as different certificates. Since Digicert has created two intermediate CA which have different...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance zsh to support tagged shell scripts

In order to increase compatibility and to be able to reuse existing scripts, the zsh should also be able to execute tagged scripts.
8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

RACF - Postprocessing data for REQ=FASTAUTH

While using IBM zSecure Access Monitor to create access reports, it's currently not possible to properly report on CL(PROGRAM) even with the 'OPTION CAPTUREPROGRAMS' enabled. That seems to work as designed as documented here and here. Access Monit...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Add REVOKE in FACILITY password reset authorities

Enhance the authority associated with FACILITY resource IRR.PASSWORD.RESET and those prefixed IRR.PWRESET to allow users to REVOKE an ID within the existing scope of authority of these resources. These FACILITY resources allow users to RESUME and ...
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

zCX: Provide Sysplex Distributor Support for High Availability

Currently zCX only supports Dynamic VIPAs, no Sysplex Distributor support is available. In case of a Docker Swarm, or even a Single zCX Container within one zCX, there is a timing window in that the application within the Container is not availabl...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 5 Future consideration

Add the ability to filter and entirely exclude different Hardware Messages from being presented at all on the HMC.

Every day use of OOCoD records to increase and/or decrease capacity on demand creates multiple alerts with the following text: "One or more profiles have been modified because the upgrade data has been restored". Our operations team has to acknowl...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

HWTJCREN: Support unnamed root arrays in JSON parser

JSON allows for unnamed arrays as root, e.g. [] is perfectly correct. However, the Web Enablement toolkit currently rejects the request to create an unnamed array as root with HWTJ_JCREN_ENTRYVALUETYPE_INV. It should accept the request without a n...
2 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Show CPC name for applicable HWI* messages

The recent recovery enhancements that includes the new D BCPII cmd. is great! We do notice however in the various messages that show we lost or regained communication with a CPC does NOT contain the CPC name. We know the local CPC has to connect 1...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 0 Future consideration