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Ability to remove or decrease the Passphrase Complexity for RACF

This would give the ability for Single Sign On which could utilize the Active Directory (Windows) as the PRA (Password Rules Authority) and create policies to control password complexity from AD. Currently RACF requires that we utilize a minimum o...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP profile - allow unresolved symbols in promoted configuration file

A lot of work has gone into adding the ability to maintain the TCPIP Profile in the Network Configuration Assistant The TCPIP command xportprof makes it easy to import the existing configurations into the NCA . It brings in the values for used sym...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

Provide a DISPLAY PROCLIB command similar to D PARMLIB

Please provide DISPLAY PROCLIB|STCJOBS command similar to the DISPLAY PARMLIB command.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Future consideration

Support live resize and live guest relocation for on-boarded z/VM virtual machines

With ICIC previous implementation, on-boarded z/VM virtual machine is not able to be live resize and live guest migration, due to lack of IUCV server running in the virtual machine. We can install the IUCV server into the on-boarded virtual machin...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

The access control check for services, keys or cryptoz resources should be postponed until after the security product has initialized.

We've changed our ICSF startup to an 'early startup' by setting system parameters ICSFPROC=ICSF and ICSF=xx. We're now noticing the following messages during startup that weren't there before : CSFM012I NO ACCESS CONTROL AVAILABLE FOR CRYPTOZ RESO...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow engine to provide access to zOSMF JWT/LTPA token

When creating a zOSMF workflow step that invokes an External RESTapi, it would be useful to have access to the current z/OSMF user's JWT token in order to use the bearer token in an API call for other z/OS services. APIs that go through Zowe's API...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

hbdelete - deleting Unix Directories recursively

We need an option with hbdelete to delete a whole directory with all files and sub-directories. Like option -X for hlist, the same option could be implemented for hbdelete. e.g. hbdelete -aX /u/iz01715/All files and sub-directories will be deleted...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Update LDAP on z/OS to bring it into this century with the TLS levels it supports

The LDAP documentation (and defaults) are woefully behind times. The give instructions on SSL V3, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 despite these versions being deprecated.The doc needs to be updated. The samples and defaults need to be updated, and deprecated ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR should be of type Error

In my opinion the message IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR ... should be of type error. A job should end with RC 8 and not 4, because it is an error and not an information the utility IFASMFDL gives. So please change it to IFA849E and change the behavior...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Add new parameter in SYS1.PARMLIB to allow OAM to use an optional LPAR name for zFS-resident objects

Currently, when OAM accesses objects where the Primary copy is resident in zFS, the full filesystem pathname is built dynamically, and one of the elements in the pathname is the LPAR name. In cases where an OAM environment is moved to a different ...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Future consideration

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