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    Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

    As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration
    176 VOTE

    Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

    ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
    over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

    Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

    When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

    IZUFPROC Abend S222 and S013E Logrec Entries

    S222 abends are generally expected when the RESTFiles requests have finished their processing. When a request first arrives, REST Files creates a TSO Address Space to handle the request, which remains available after use so that subsequent request...
    8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

    Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

    The warning message should be issued for new datasets as well, not just for existing datasets.

    It would be advisable to extend the dataset profile warning to dataset allocation as well, rather than limiting it only to access and delete operations. Currently, notifications in the syslog and to the user are generated only for these latter cas...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

    DSFS support for GDGs

    It would be very useful if DSFS would also support GDGs. We already exploit DSFS with ssh transfer, but missing GDG support is a road-blocker.
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

    Built-in z/OS Unix package manager

    z/OS Unix is slowly becoming more widely used and relevant with technologies like Python, GO, Zowe Explorer, Zowe Desktop and so on. Installs via pax are becoming more common and a new generation of systems programmers are coming in that need to i...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / General 3 Future consideration

    RACF validation of external generated JWTs with fully OIDC support

    Currently, RACF can only validate JWTs based on the IDTDATA definitions within RACF itself. In times of multi-platform solutions and higher security demands this is no longer adequate. Modern architectures consinsts of at least front ends and mayb...
    10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

    Automatic Binary Optimizer for the Operating System

    Since years, there is the ABO available for COBOL. The latest z/OS always supports up to minus two generations of hardware. So after you update a z/OS and a machine, you still can't benefit at all from the latest hardware. The idea is to add a sim...
    9 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

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