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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

Change DSMON to repot on dynamically loaded RACF exits

I'm sure this was been asked before and will probably be rejected BUT it would be nice for program ICHDSM00 to be able to report on and handle dynamically loaded RACF exits.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically resolve variables in <fileTemplate> element

Currently, variables in the <fileTemplate> element of a workflow need to be statically defined in the workflow properties file.z/OSMF would become more flexible by dynamically resolving these/any type of variables at runtime.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

RMF CF OVERVIEW Data shouldn't miss when one LPAR is down.

In our z/OS V2R5 environment, we observed that RMF MONITOR 3 CF OVERVIEW record couldn't be found which is empty. The Time gap is from 02/16/22 15.17.10 to 02/16/22 16.48.00.Our JB0 system ran into issue during this time range, but we don't think ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

Request to remove the portmap dump call from z/OS NFS

Portmap dump calls are now identified as threats by standard firewall rules and other platform NFS clients have removed portmap dump calls. z/OS NFS should also provide a configuration option to disable portmap dump calls to prevent firewalls from...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 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

System Recovery Boost - Monitoring of zIIPs

Hello IBM, We've been checking the workings of SRB on our z15s and I came across the following problem ... At shutdown of z/OS via GDPS or System Automation, STC IEASDBS is started and it sets reserved zIIPs online. So far so good. At IPL, due...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Future consideration

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).
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

More granularity to secure JES2 commands

Nowadays you can only protect who can CANCEL any BATCH, any STC or any TSO in global but not by any other filter; for example: FORCE parameter, jobname,… If you have permission to the JES2.CANCEL.BAT resource, you can cancel any JOB. It would be i...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 45 Future consideration

Bypass compression of encrypted and uncompressed datasets in DFDSS DUMP

During DUMP processing, if ZCOMPRESS is specified allow DFDSS to bypass ZEDC compression if the dataset being dumped is encrypted but NOT compressed prior to encryption
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

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