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Allow LDAP server admins to be able to customize SQL queries for LDAP operations.

Due to the wide range of SQL functionality and DB2 database implementations it's possible that certain SQL queries generated by the LDAP server are not optimized for some DB2 databases, a mechanism to allow LDAP admins to customize queries can gre...
4 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Anticipating RACF profiles that reaching maximum size

IRR411I message indicates when a profile reached the maximum output size that RACF can handle (65 535 bytes), but it is not possible to know the real size of a profile at a given moment to anticipate this situation. Would it be possible to impleme...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

zERT Analyzer - Enhance Query Builder Capabilities

While using the query builder in zERT it does not offer the ability to filter for either 'User ID' or 'Job Name' even those values are reported in the result set. It would be of great benefit if the query would allow to filter already on those two...
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

When using dsfs in a PDS the ls -al should display ISPF statistics or other info

When using ISPF the member display panel will display either ISPF statistics (if available) or load module information. The ls -al command when using /dsfs should present similar information when it is available. Since dsfs supports ISPF statistic...
3 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 4 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS to support Migrated z/OS Datasets

Ed Jaffe on the ibm-main listserv pointed out that using dsfs any DFSMShsm migrated data sets were not available. This is a critical oversight as DFSMShsm is still very heavily used. DSFS needs to be able to recognize data sets in a migrated state...
5 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Future consideration

New Resource Group based on available capacity (System Scope)

All Resource Groups available today are towards a defined amount of CPU / MSU / Service units and, once defined, are flat. It would be useful for us to have the ability to define a resource group that varies with the system utilization. One use ca...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

Backup/Restore During zOSMF Software Update

Scenario: A user would like to apply updates to their Software Instance in Software Update on z/OSMF. Current: Right now, you can perform a corrective install, recommended install, or functional install and the environment is updated with no backu...
10 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Allow filters on SDSF REXX interface when reading Operlog

Currently the ISFFILTER variable is only supported on tabular displays but not when using the REXX SDSF ISFLOG READ TYPE(OPERLOG) interface. It would be useful to be able to filter the Operlog on say SYSNAME or MSGID using the REXX interface given...
3 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow engine to provide access to zOSMF JWT/LTPA token

When creating a zOSMF workflow step that invokes an External RESTapi, it would be useful to have access to the current z/OSMF user's JWT token in order to use the bearer token in an API call for other z/OS services. APIs that go through Zowe's API...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration
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Add ability for RACDCERT to handle multiple subject alternative names

Currently, RACDCERT list will only show the first altname for a certificate. Certificates can often have many other altnames, and that information can be difficult to obtain. Also, RACDCERT can only generate certificates with one altname, when man...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 9 Future consideration

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