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switch from IEFUSI to SMFLIM

Hi IBM, today we use IEFUSI to adjust Region Limit and Region Size for z/OS Address Spaces.With this Exit, we also make sure that we have a sufficiently large difference between Region Limit (LDALIMIT/LDAELIM) and Region Size (LDAVVRG/LDAEVVRG). z...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

As z/VM RACF is not sharing with z/OS anymore we need a z/VM face on RACF, remove irrelevant CLASSes

As z/VM RACF is not sharing with z/OS anymore we need a z/VM face on RACF, remove irrelevant CLASSes. IBM no longer permits the sharing of RACF DB's with z/OS and z/VM. So why have irrelevant RACF classes visible in z/VM? It is confusing when scan...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Remove all references to JES on output of RACF commands on z/VM

I consider this an incorrout defect. My idea is to remove any references to JES and additional z/OS references that have no bearing on the z/VM product. It is distracting and confusing to me a VM sysprog. As RACF is pulling apart on z/VM from the ...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Setting shorter timeouts (e.g. 10th of seconds) in z/OS® client web enablement toolkit

The z/OS® client web enablement toolkit provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable traditional, native z/OS programs to participate in modern web services applications. In z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit you can use t...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Enable VSAM browse/view from ISPF (without additional product such as File Manager)

Browse (and perhaps view) a VSAM dataset directly from ISPF without having to install an additional product such as File Manager
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Reset Shared Secret Key User-By-User when using LDAP Templates

It would be very helpfull to have the possibility to reset the Shared Secret Key for each user-by-user when using LDAP Template. So when somebody lost their TOTP, the HMC admin can force a reset Shared Secret key for only the user who lost the TOT...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future 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...
5 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...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Not under consideration

Secure Key Parsing

There is a use case where a password or key may need to be passed to a Job, Rexx, Exec or other operation securely. It would be useful to have a feature where by a key could entered when executing the operation and passed to it, possibly using som...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

zERT - Show a hint when zOSMF NCA will generate multiple policy agent rules

As there is no 1:n mapping from the zERT rules to the implementable policy, zERT will generate as many rules as required and append a suffix like ~1, ~2, ~n. However when coding those rules in the zOSMF NCA GUI there is not hint that the resulting...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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