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Missing RACF Statistic (last connect date) when logging on with SESSION=OMVSSRV and SESSION=APPCTP

We need to monitor, if RACF users are active. So we verify the last connect date of user's default group every night. When last connect data is older than nn days, our night job will revoke this user profile. If the user still needs this profile, ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Need job submitter userid in memory resident location

To obtain the job submitter of a job requires disk i/o to get the JCTTOKEN out of the JCT for the job and then use RACROUTE REQUEST=TOKENMAP against the JCTTOKEN to convert the security token into human readable text that is mapped by the ICHRUTKN...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide Change Tracker Option to Force Comments When a Change is Made

Customers spend far too much time trying to figure out WHY a particular change was made weeks, months, or years ago. And that problem will only grow as more people head into retirement. It would be great if Change Tracker provided an option for th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Mixedcase option

The Open Source UNIX standard is to use case sensitivity. However, it would improve z/OS OpenSSH usability if group names were treated without case sensitivity (similar to how user names are treated) when processing directives such as AllowGroups ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

RACF Granular Control for encryption of basic and large format datasets

Allow RACF Dataset Profiles with an encryption key in the DFP segment to provide a flag for whether basic or large format datasets should be encrypted.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

HSM EXPIREBV to be part of Automated function

In most of the clients I have worked, one thing I observed is they were missing to run EXPIREBV regularly. Few shops schedule them as batch jobs or run adhoc and when people change or with time, they tend to forget to look into it. Because of this...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

JES2 Policy - enhancement

z/OS2.4 has brought up great function of JES2 Policy however there are many fields which are not modifiable and bring a constrain in the way if we like to replace our jes2 exits. One of the example is SYSOUTGROUP where XMITTER field is not mention...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

List all SEGMENTS from LISTUSER or LISTGRP command

Using RACF Commands LISTUSER and LISTGRP there is no way to list all the segments on the User ID or Group without listing each segment name on the command. The request is to allow the use of ALL on the LISTUSER or LISTGRP command to list all segme...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

auditing of certificate usage

Provide a means of auditing usage of specific certificates.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

zCX-Automate the change of IP address for the zCX instance for DR Testing purposes

We are looking for a way to automate the change of the zCX Instance IP address for DR Testing purposes where we change our DR IP addresses when performing DR network isolated tests.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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