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Create a zCX Container for Tivoli Warehouse Proxy and Tivoli Summarization and Pruning Agent

We currently run the Tivoli Enterprise Portal and we use the Data Warehouse. IBM has created a zCX container image for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. It would be great if we could also get containerized versions of other Tivoli monitoring agents - ...
5 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

take advantage of SDB when allocating a dataset using BPXBATCH

While allocating a dataset using BPXBATCH Program, FORCE SDB only has an affect if the data set is not opened between the allocation and un allocation. The only program I can think of that does that is IEFBR14. But when we are using BPXBATCH, file...
5 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Control passphrase strength and complexity, just like password strength and complexity is today.

We must enforce complexity rules for passphrase (i.e. : minimal length, pattern, ...etc...), just like we do for password. Some regulatory bodies compel us to do so in Banking industry. The subparameter RULEn of SETROPTS PASSWORD command should ap...
10 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Provide options to cancel active user sessions

It would be beneficial to have options to cancel active user sessions in order to comply with an audit requirement. This would involve providing the following options: Enhancing the Usage Satatistics plugin by selecting a box beside a User ID, the...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Under review

Log RACF keyring and certificate usage to enable proper validation and auditing

Determining whether a RACF keyring or any RACF certificate is still in use by an application (e.g., started task, batch job, etc.) is a very challenging task. Neither RACF nor other components like zERT generate SMF records that capture the usage ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

Enhance RACF ENF 79 signalling for grouping class profiles relating to DB2 objects

We found that if someone has successfully executed e.g. a Stored Procedure with access granted via a RACF grouping profile and then you remove their access to that grouping profile alongside relevant RACLIST REFRESH command, they can still execute...
11 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Allow user ID that authenticate with passticket to not have to set a password.

Currently user ID that use passticket for authentication still have to set a password in RACF even if it is never used. This creates overhead managing a password and renewal of the password where non-expiry passwords are not permitted. This reques...
12 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

z/OSMF REST TSO API.

We use the command "zowe zos-tso issue command "exec somerexx"" extensively, to reuse some of our existing REXX on Z. This causes problems sometimes, when a legacy REXX calls another legacy REXX that calls another ..., and somewhere a panel pops u...
7 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

LDAP Server Definitions - Allow testing and validation

With the current option is only possible to define the Primary and Backup hosts with a port and separate Bind DN. It would be great to offer the function to test the connection (with a ping for non-SSL and a handshake for SSL connections) and vali...
7 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

LDAP Server Definitions - Different Ports and SSL for Primary and Backup

With the current configuration options I'm able to define two hosts (primary and backup) however I'm only able to define a single port which must then match for both hosts. I need the option/flexibility to assign different settings for each host l...
12 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

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