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Z/OS RMM RM(EXPDT) Catalog Control function for expdt=99000.

Right now with retention method expdt if a the user uses expdt=99000 in their jcl the expiration date is set to 12/31/1999. With whilecatalog(on) for a management class we want to use for catalog control, if all the datasets on the tape(s) are unc...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Planned for future release

DSFS to release enqueues in a timely manner

DSFS holds excl enqueues on datasets for minutes at a time.
11 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

An AD to ESM mapping mechanism for objects and actions with a RESTful API interface

All of the front-end and orchestration tools work off Active Directory authorizations. There is no connection between any AD entitlements and the resources on the mainframe environment. To prevent a man in the middle attack there is a need to crea...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Add auto refresh/update

When checking the status of running automation workflows or when user needs to manually do steps they are often mashing the refresh button in order to see status changes. Suggestion to add a method to automatically update on changes or refresh in ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow reuse for VSAM file opened in RLS mode

To be able to use REPRO with the REUSE option against a VSAM file that is opened in RLS mode
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Planned for future release

HMC/HMA & Radius Authentication

Update/modification to Idea ZL1S-I-400. The client is requesting HMC/HMA support/integration for Radius Authentication. This needs to address the scenario where there is no z/OS available in the environment (i.e., therefore not dependent on MFA).
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

Reduce CPU time for UNIX file security especially if you have FSACCESS on

Please enhance FSACCESS and UNIX file system access so it stops draining our engines. I would suggest adding a cache so that FSACCESS doesn't hammer RACF with calls ever single time anything traverses a directory or touches a file.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 7 Not under consideration

Add Live Guest Relocation Support for Linux guests with Dedicated Crypto resources

A z/VM SSI cluster provides a virtual server mobility function called LGR (live guest relocation). A running virtual server (guest virtual machine) can be relocated from one member to another. However, currently LGR is not supported on guests with...
almost 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

AMAPDUPL and meaningful error messages

Using AMAPDUPL return sometimes RC different of zero. In general this RC and messages are not meaningful or comprehensible or printed on the sysout. For exemple, if you want to have a TARGET_DSN with an £ character, the server return a bad request...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Support rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine

Rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine from the same image of the original one, and re-use the same userid as before, just create new bootable volume as new root disk of the rebuilt virtual machine.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted