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ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Request to auto synch the time across all crypto adapters with the system time.

Each IBM 4768 (and other 476x series) cryptographic coprocessors maintains its own internal clock to provide timestamped logging for PCI-HSM compliance. The clock value is set for each card individually by an operator using the TKE "Set Clock" fun...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 Future consideration

RMM Retention Method Expdt Abend handling

For Tapes that are using retention method VRSEL there is an abend handling routine that is used when a job abends and the dataset and tapes are cleaned up prior to the rerun of the job. However with tapes using retention method EXPDT there is no s...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Planned for future release

Integration of CHPID-Mapping-Tool-Logic into HCD

Today: IBM Z hardware configuration process is extremely clumsy, complex, error prone and time intensive. In addition the user needs to work with several non-integrated tools. This causes unnecessary effort in regular configuration tasks and adds ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / HCD 5 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

Enhance IRRXUTIL/R_admin to support DIGTCERT/DIGTCERT

I would like to see the R_admin/IRRXUTIL interface enhanced to support the "non-standard" RACF classes DIGTCERT and DIGTRING, this would allow administrators to extract all digital certificate info using IRRXUTIL without needing to rely on using I...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Redesign the PR/SM to manage the IBM Spyre AI Accelerators resources and enabling the z/VM and KVM to access these AI Accelerators resourses accordingvto the PR/SM

This idea is very important in IBM Z17 and Linux ONE Emperor5, to use the AI acceleratotors resources for virtual machines and/or Containerized AI workliads by z/VM and KVM. This will enable Thousands and may be Millions of Openshift AI containers...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

Please add support for generating a Certificate Signing Request with email address (/E=email@xyz.com)

Today you can't make a RACDCERT GENCERT with an email address in the SUBJECTSDN, as you can using other certificate tools. RACF supports the email address, if it comes in a Certificate from an external source like EKMF, Windows etc.. We experience...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

BLDL to PDSE need to return RC=08 at I/O error instead of ABEND212

PDSE data sets are used in IMS Online environment and issue BLDL, FINE, READ, CHECK macros.DCB specify SYNAD exit and ABEND Exit. But BLDL to PDSE issues ABEND212 with DFS909I 212-00 instead of RC=08 at I/O error. When we used standard PDS, it ret...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 4 Planned for future release

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