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Middleware recovery Boost parameters options

Dear Madam/Sir We would like to have the feasibility to change the way that is divided the daily interval of 30minutes of Recovery Boost. It should be useful to have the possibility of customization of thefollowing Middleware Recovery boost settin...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Not under consideration

zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
8 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

System Recovery Boost SMF record to know how much CPU used in ZIIP instead of GCP

During System Recovery Boost (SRB) some work, that is not eligible for zIIP, is dispatched on zIIP's in case there isn’t sufficient standard CP capacity available. There is existing SMF to count how much there is zIIP eligible time spent on CP's, ...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Not under consideration

Preventing ICH14081I Warning Message

ICH14081I message is issued when RACF encounters a duplicate class name in the dynamic class descriptor table and the installation-defined class descriptor table (module ICHRRCDE). The class attributes in the dynamic class table override any class...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Upstream all z/OS USS ported commands (i.e. cp, grep)

z/OS is distributed with many UNIX commands, such as cp and grep. These commands, in many cases, have not evolved from when they were originally ported while the open-source version has evolved with additional capabilities and features. The z/OS c...
8 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

IRR.PASSWORD.RESET profile should be provide more flexibility

CONTROL access to the profile permits to a user to: 1) Reset a password with NOEXPIRED operand or 2) Reset the password or password phrase within the minimum change interval for a user who does not have the SPECIAL, OPERATIONS, AUDITOR, or PROTECT...
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Passphrases need to be in non-display field when PASSWORD PHRASE tso command prompts for user entry of old and new passphrases

Strengthens security since people standing nearby cannot see what the user is typing
4 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Support EZANS as part of z/OS Communications Server

The EZANS Netstat dialogue is a vital tool for suporting z/OS Communications Server TCPIP. It is not supoorted and is frozen as a level of z/OS 1.12.IBM should formally support EZANS as part of z/OS Communications Server:1. to accept PMRs for faul...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow cp command to access output PDS as DISP=SHR

Currently, the cp command, when copying to a PDS, accesses the library using DISP=OLD. It therefore fails if someone is editing a member in that PDS or even browsing it. Need a way to access the PDS using DISP=SHR, so the cp command will work in t...
6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Not under consideration

Create New SMF Record subtype for ACEECHK Warnings

When enabling ACEECHK class in RACF to detect ACEE modification detection events, only IRR421I is issued to the syslog. This request is to have a SMF80 subtype record created to log these events so they can be easily researched among recent or arc...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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