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An enhancement or upgrade to allow support for SSO products, including SAM.

My organization is moving from LDAP to SAML
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

Allow user to update config of SSH CLI container for security-related control

Currently, for the SSH CLI container embedded in zCX address space, users are not allowed to update any parms for the SSH server and this will only pick the default Openssh configs for its execution, meaning clients are allowed to use some old and...
10 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

Add invoked omvs command to 3.17 command results display

Under ISPF 3.17 one can, if enabled, issue OMVS commands and have the results appear in ISPF Browse or View. It would be very helpful to add to the display the full command that was issued. This is especially helpful if the results are printed/cop...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Improve Health Check for RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION

We run ISKLM server on z/OS to maintain tape encryption keys. Expired certificates should stay in then keyring until they are not used anymore. Expired certificates possibly stay a long time in the keyring. RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION becomes seve...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Future consideration

Repeat msg CSFM655I AN ARCHIVED RECORD COLINCIPHER2 IN THE ACTIVE CKDS WAS REFERENCED,whenever CSF restarted

I used an archived keyand got message CSFM655I AN ARCHIVED RECORD COLINCIPHER2 IN THE ACTIVE CKDS WAS REFERENCED. If I shutdown ICSF and restarted it, then used the key again, I did not get the message. It would be good if ICSF can produce the mes...
3 months ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

data collection at DS8000 and RMF Reporting with Ethernet Throughput (in/out) with TCT (transparent Cloud Tiering)

We are using TCT Ethernet Activities not externalized by DS8000 Reporting of Ethernet transfer (in/out) at DS8000 Ethernet-Ports is required to monitor and to plan infrastructure
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

Consistent Read from Secondary - decision making in response to poor performance/hardware health changes

Our current understanding is that to exploit the DS8K's consistent read from secondary function, IOS currently sends some queries out at Hyperswap enable time in order to determine at the LCU boundary whether reads should be directed to the PPRC p...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Prevent LPAR definitions that would span CPC drawers

When configuring LPAR definitions for a CEC via the HMC, logic should exist to prevent customers from specifying a configuration of zIIPs, CPs, and weight that would result in an LPAR that spans drawers. Basically, perform the calculations for the...
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Add a last login timestamp attribute for z/OS LDAP.

The z/OS LDAP server would be greatly enhanced by including a password policy operational attribute called pwdLastLogin which contains a dated timestamp of the last time an entry has logged in to the server.
10 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

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