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Support LogFilter for ibm-filterSubject

Currently, we can set a logfilter for an IP-Adress by using / F ldapuxsl, LOG FILTER,(IBM-FILTERIP=1.2.3.4) In the ACL documentation we find additional filters that can be set for ACLs, for example ibm-filterSubject. Having the Subject filter also...
2 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Manage Syslog Servers support UDP protocol

HSBC is planning to implement Z15 HMC function (Manage syslog server) to send a problem notifications from HMC to Mainframe system over UDP protocol (receive HMC problem event notifications on Syslogd logs). However, the UDP is not supported.
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to ACEECHK

Add clarification to IRR421I messages and granularity to the Failure option to allow for a more gradual implementation rather than a sledgehammer approach. This would benefit RACF Administrators gradually rolling out the failure option and help RA...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

System Recovery Boost for OMVS subsystem

For now, we can't classify OMVS address space as BOOST on WLM policy. So if i have Middleware Recovery Boost who launch an OMVS address space who consume lot of CPU GCP time i don't take any advantage of BOOST feature. For example, ZOWE software c...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Not under consideration

Password changes via RRSF should be logged in the target system

If a password is changed by a user and setropts audit(user) is active, an SMF data record of type 80 is written.If the new password is passed on to a target system via RRSF, the password change is not logged in the target system. There is no SMF r...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

XCF CDS defined for a specific system(s)

Submitting a request to have XCF define a generally-applicable interface by which installations could define in the COUPLExx parmlib member what systems they want to use which CDS types. With that interface, we could recognize at add-function time...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer allow cancellation

When having a big list of datasets being imported, it is not possible to cancel/stop a task. The only way to stop a task is to restart the full zOSMF instance which is very bad as other services rely on zOSMF. A full Server restart just because th...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zCX - Enable WLM to manage containers running within a single zCX STC

When running a zCX address space hosting many application containers in it, it shall be possible to manage the workload with WLM. Otherwise I cannot benefit from hosting many applications within once zCX address space.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Improve DSFS Help messages for readability

Improve DSFS help message to be more readable. Examples: Current dsadm createparm -help IDFS00090I Usage: IDFZADM createparm -path <path name> [{-pdsmodel <sub-directory parameters> | -psmodel <sub-file parameters>}] [-level] [-h...
10 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

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