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RRSF TCPIP stack affinity

We use RRSF on LPARs with multiple TCPIP stacks. Currently there is no way to set stack affinity so that RACF only binds to a particular stack. Without stack affinity, outbound RRSF connections initiated from a system with multiple TCPIP stacks ma...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Set a Preference List for Monitoring System of a Coupling Facility

We think it is important to set which system will be responsable for monitoring full threshold of a specificCoupling Facility. In environments with GDPS, Ksys should have no product running unless GDPS own, on the recommendationthe GDPS, to not ha...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

HMC Security requires pattern matching to support our DevOps model

We need to give appropriate permission to our Linux LPARs to our DevOps community, we have dozens of different use cases with their own DevOps team. Separation of duty is critical, and elevated authority (such as PoR, STP/CTN etc) must be able to ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Display FMID for datasets being deployed in a server pack

When doing installation of a server pack with many hundred of dataset it's not easy to know what product the dataset belongs to. There for it would be very useful to display FMID & a description of the product in a column to make it easier to ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

HCD device ADD LIKE enhancement

Currently the ADD LIKE function for devices functions differently for 3390B devices than 3390D devices. Specifically in the case where you ADD LIKE a 3390B intending for it to retain the address but in a new CU that you intend to connect to a diff...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / HCD 4 Future consideration

More informative messages on RACF error

Issuing the TSO command "racmap" is producing the following message in the TSO session: Abend 684000 hex occurred processing command 'RACMAP '.ISPD210 CMD abended - 'RACMAP' terminated abnormally. This abend is actually 2 codes 684 system abend an...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Propagate HMC certificates to defined CPCs to allow LDAP login with secure certs.

In the conversations with IBM, the following appears to be the recommended path and we are good with this approach. We need to ensure that users (including IBM techs) can log into the Support elements using trusted AD-LDAP and our Privileged User ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

Determine why User ID is REVOKED. Excessive Password Violations or Administrative Revoke

Note: It was suggested I open this RFE with RACF and zSecure. There will be 2 identical RFEs one for each product. There is no way to determine why a User ID is REVOKED. When an administrator looks at a User ID that is revoked, there is not anyway...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Enhance visibility and validity of AT-TLS Certificate Chains

We would like to request the following enhancements to AT-TLS/System SSL/PAGENT with respect to certificate chain visibility and validation: 1) Provide a command to display the certificates that were selected/cached by ATTLS, to remove any doubt ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Not under consideration

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