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Sign the z/OS Customized Offerings Driver for Validated Boot

The IBM Customized Offerings Driver (IBM Program No. 5751-COD) should be digitally signed by IBM so that it can be optionally checked in the field using Validated Boot for z/OS procedures. Although IBM Z installations can already validate the inte...
5 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

For HLQ's without a pdsmodel or psmodel configured, pass an undefined allocation over to DFSMS to handle it

This is useful for two reasons. 1) With the current limitation of the dsadm createparm command not allowing its use only when USERID EQ HLQ, which is in itself a terrible restriction.2) Without having a pdsmodel or psmodel configured for that HLQ,...
13 days ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

make bcpii V1 HWI_RESERVEID information visible in V2 API

W we had a problem during a DR test where we were not able to do a CBU (via EMC GDDR software which uses BCPii) because someone had left a panel open. IBM says that HWI_RESERVEID is in the old (version 1) of BCPii would have let us know that his w...
5 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Submitted

Desirable new feature: GROUP revoke inactive days and consequently new user inactivity policy (based on ZOS-I-4312)

As per your recommendation we reopen the idea ZOS-I-4312
6 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Extend z/OS Validated Boot Protections to z/OS Sysplexes

Currently z/OS Validated Boot only operates within the scope of a single z/OS LPAR (or z/VM guest in limited fashion) — what I'll refer to as a "Stage 0" configuration (in Enable mode). Thus it's currently possible for a z/OS Sysplex to consist of...
6 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

Create a SMF security violation for failures on BPX.SUPERUSER so installations can use it to detect possible hacks or attacks.

Please refer to case: TS017997103 for additional information Our intent was to audit the usage of the "su" command, and subsequent access granted once a user has switched user. Primarily we want to audit the "su" to ROOT userid. Thinking we could ...
21 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Under review

Built-in z/OS Unix package manager

z/OS Unix is slowly becoming more widely used and relevant with technologies like Python, GO, Zowe Explorer, Zowe Desktop and so on. Installs via pax are becoming more common and a new generation of systems programmers are coming in that need to i...
3 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.

I'm primarily interested in the openssh, specifically ssh-keygen, but all shell/utilities need to be code page tag aware. This is extremely important as some ported tools will create files as ISO8859-1 causing those files to be unusable by some of...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 4 Functionality already exists

add a TN3270 configuration option to disable the check for Server name & Certificate name to match

Configurable Option to disable Verify Certificate We have encountered a situation with our TKEs at RBC. We had LPAR site certificates included in the TN3270 ring before and removed thus only TN3270 user certificate is in the keyring. More specific...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Suppress SDSF ULOG panel after z/OS V2.5

SDSF ULOG display was changed by z/OS V2.5 following. <V2.4>The users who do not authorized READ access to resource ISFCMD.ODSP.ULOG.jesx could not display ULOG panel. <V2.5> The users became to display ULOG panel whether authorized or...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

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