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Include REVOKE in FACILITY password reset authorities

Enhance the authority associated with FACILITY resource IRR.PASSWORD.RESET and those prefixed IRR.PWRESET to allow users to REVOKE an ID within the existing scope of authority of these resources. These FACILITY resources allow users to RESUME and ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

zERT plugin to use Certificate for Authentication

As you know to connect to Db2 for zERT plugin we had to provide the ID / PASSWORD in clear text inside z/OSMF to get it connected initially but as we move along the solution to production environment (UTPLEX ) providing a password for a batchid is...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

FTP server: use of UID(0)

The z/OS Communications server documentation states FTP Server has security requirements specified as needing UID(0). However, I have found (running on a zPDT) that the FTP server runs sucessfully without UID(0).I have observed other sites running...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF NCA Automatically detect the z/OS release level of a system image

We need z/OSMF NCA to automatically detect the z/OS release level of a system image. At the moment this parameter has to be set manually on the main "Systems" tab (select properties on a System Image (LPAR).
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow a custom threshold to start additional servants

Customer has an Application Server configured with a mininum of 10 and maximum of 20 servants. Each servant is configured with the workload profile as "CUSTOM" and the variable server_region_custom_thread_count=200, witch give us a minimum total o...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine

DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine. This is useful in a RACF environment using sitewide SECLABELs for mandatory access control. The commands affected would be DIRM ADD. An additional operand of SECLAB...
10 months ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

RACF Profiles with WARNING: Enable restriction of maximum WARNING access level for better security

Current situation:RACF-Profiles have the ability of WARNING-Option, which gives a ICH408-message, but allow the access regardless of the access rights of the User. Our idea is to enhance the WARNING option with a maximum access level parameter,lik...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Store dataset creating id in automatically during allocation

Provide a mechanism where the creating ID of a dataset can be stored in a place that can be easily displayed and reported on using standard tooling like Dcollect.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Not under consideration

Enhance TBDISPL to enable Panel REXX Access to the Table

Enhance the TBDISPL service so that the table data on the ISPF Panel is accessible, and modifiable, using Panel REXX. This would eliminate the need for dynamic panels/table in over 50% (perhaps 90%+) of the use cases.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

RACF throttling logon attempts before revoking

Protecting users having a password/passphrase from denial of service attack by implementing a timeout value between the failed logon attempts.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration