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The warning message should be issued for new datasets as well, not just for existing datasets.

It would be advisable to extend the dataset profile warning to dataset allocation as well, rather than limiting it only to access and delete operations. Currently, notifications in the syslog and to the user are generated only for these latter cas...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Command required to filter all the userid if it contain S# data.

We are Monitoring all our ID's which will help us keep track of all the id we own, if there is any changes in the id we will be alerted and we can take action on it. how can we identify that id is our's? we will add S#=XXXXXX with our ID's to know...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Reclassifying messages type EZZ8441I and EZZ8438I to Error (E) status

Reclassifying messages type EZZ8441I and EZZ8438I to Error (E) status EZZ8441I PAGENT MODIFY COMMAND UNSUCCESSFUL - SYNTAX ERROR EZZ8438I PAGENT POLICY DEFINITIONS CONTAIN ERRORS FOR image : type They can go unnoticed by automation and by less exp...
10 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server Not under consideration

Convert RACF to UTF-8

It would be beneficial if RACF supported full UTF-8 natively, it would allow greater support for specialized characters in names and descriptions, it would also make communication with other systems much easier.
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Improve RACROUTE macro for REQUEST=FASTAUTH to MNOTE on missing WKAREA

RACROUTE REQUEST=FASTAUTH needs a second work area (WKAREA) that other requests like "auth" don't require (they just required the WORKA), the idea is to add a MNOTE, just like when the normal work area is missing:** ASMA254I *** MNOTE *** 154+ 12,...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Enable Bring-Your-Own-Model (BYOM) Support in IBM AISS

Currently, IBM AISS only offers IBM-defined AI models for systems insights and automation. While these models are powerful, customers often have domain-specific requirements or have already invested in custom-trained models (e.g., forecasting work...
11 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework Not under consideration

Smart Control Block Visualizer

Replace traditional “hex dump style” printing with an intelligent, structured, and human-readable representation of control blocks.
11 months ago in z/OS / General Not under consideration

Support for Large Block Interface in IRRADU00

By enabling LBI for OUTDD (or XMLFORM), IRRADU00 would spend less CPU time on I/O processing, thereby potentially increasing throughput. Also, data compression on tape would be more efficient when storing large OUTDD data sets.
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Require DFSMS DSS to provide detailed messages about the encryption status of data sent to the cloud, and also to enquire on crypto status of cloud-resident data.

Any enterprise sending data to the cloud must be confident the data sent is encrypted at the target and on the wire with customer keys and not just the provider keys. Messages should be issued displaying the status. In addition a query command nee...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS Not under consideration

Default values of IEAOPT CCIMP, CCIMPBOOST parms should be 0

We would like to control the way the cpu protection is assigned to a workload using WLM instead of IEOPT CCIMP, CCIMPBOOST parms. These parameters assign implicitly the cpu critical to the whole importance 1 or 2 workloads. For customers that have...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM Not under consideration

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