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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

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

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...
11 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.
11 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Clean up the DSFS dsadm query reporting

In the DSFS product the dsadm query has a number of reports. The issue is that the heading format is inconsistent. examples: compression has no header metacache has a header but no dashed line below it some have no space before the header so if mu...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Improve DSFS error messages

Receiving a message like this: IDFS00329E Could not set creation parameters, return code 126 reason code ED07621A. Is confusing and meaningless to the average OMVS shell user. They are not used to finding a messages and codes manual ( which is so ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

auditing of certificate usage

Provide a means of auditing usage of specific certificates.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under 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 support in RACF to add and list extended key usage (EKU)

Currently RACF does not allow to add extended key usage in a certificate. It also can not list. However working with TLS 1.3, it is necessary to have clientAuth in extended key usage. It is not desired to use old Java keytool or openssl to g...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Change vm.max_map_count on zCX Kernel

To allow running a cluster of ELK (ElasticSearch) containers in a zCX configuration with SWARM, it is necessary to adjust the vm.max_map_count parameter in /etc/sysctl.conf from 65530 to 262144 on zCX Linux system. Without this adjustment, when st...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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