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DFSORT AI Engine

Customer runs lots of DFSORT workload and often has to tune its parameters according to the input file characteristics , amount of memory available and other factors. This can be a cumbersome task, error prone and sometimes cause inefficient use o...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
10 months ago in z/OS / LE 4 Future consideration

ACEE Modification Detection events to SMF

Having an ACEE modification event generate an SMF record would be helpful to an organization's SOC team or any SIEM solution. Today the only way to generate an actionable alert is to roll your own automation and build an actionable event based on ...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Have Grafana sign the RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin

Our organization does not allow the installation of Grafana plugins that are not signed as it poses a security risk, and I imagine that other organizations are the same. In order for us to make use of the plugin it needs to get signed by Grafana.
3 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

I think it would be good to remove the 4000 character restriction for an EXPORT list.

The company I work for was a big DFS user which was made obsolete in z/OS 2.2. When moving to NFS and using the -access method to provide access to USS Filesystems we had to take a very generic approach when specifying machine ids. Even though the...
12 days ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable DSFS /txt support for datasets in ISPF PACK format

IBM ISPF users have been using the PACK option of ISPF Edit since it was introduced in 1983 to conserve disk space, and in some cases provide a minimal encryption of their data. With the introduction of DSFS with z/OS 2.5 and 3.1 shell users can n...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

RACF should prioritize checking certificates with longer validity periods in the keyrings.

Opening a new idea (RFE) since IBM changed the status of ZOS-I-4249 to Not under consideration Why is it useful: Let's consider an example: CustomerX provides a new subCA to Visa for installation as a trusted entity because one of their subCAs, sa...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 13 Under review

today there are IRA206I messages that come out showing the top users of storage when you have an Aux storage shortage. But would like to know who is consuming storage Before we run out.

Ideally, we would like to know the top users consuming storage if we hit the 50% limit. (instead of waiting until we hit the critical limits) so when this message is issued, it would be nice to have the IRA206I message issued. IRA205I 50% AUXILIAR...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

Desirable new feature: GROUP revoke inactive days and consequently new user inactivity policy

We have set SETROPTS INACTIVE(60) and this is applicable for all users. However, we have some specific users with the requirement not to be revoked after 60 days but more than this value. So, Inactivity should be helpful to be defined as group att...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

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