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Enhance the IPSEC command to delete a shadow tunnel

We hit an issue where the main SWSA tunnel came down but one of the shadow tunnels remained active and thus caused our server on that host to become unresponsive. We had no way of removing the shadow tunnel to resume our workload on that LPAR and ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Uncontrolled environment after accessing OMVS

After accessing OMVS under TSO we are getting an uncontrolled environment and is necessary to logoff/logon in order tho have again a controlled environment. We received the following message if we try to access any TSO application that requires a ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

A mechanism that uses RACF protected ids (and equivalent for other ESMs) without storing them off platform to ensure they are secure

The automation solution will use a series of privileged interactive service accounts to fulfil user requests. Any solution to protect those ids e.g. OTP, ssh key pairs, needs to use the ESM to store the security credentials, They must not be store...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Please add NJE routing to z/OSMF Job Submission

I am opening this on behalf of a customer (see business justification). The customer runs 5-10 z/OS instances in a sysplex but they run as many as 4 JES2 MAS's within a single sysplex. In order for z/OSMF to route jobs to a system today it uses SY...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

IDCAMS: DEFINE RECATALOG for multivolume dataset with volcount > 2 in order to the filesequence and all volumes

Recatalog the multivolume dataset in wrong order and or less volumes the dataset is corrupted but the IDCAMS has returncode=0.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Planned for future release

IPSEC Decryption Option when taking a Ctrace

We need an option when taking a IBM packet trace then processing a trace in IPCS to be able to display the TCP headers when using the IPSEC protocol. Please see a case that we opened up on July 3rd of 2018, Service Request # 37388 122 000.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Change z/OSMF Software Management to add "Import and Receive Enhanced HOLDDATA"

z/OSMF brings new capabilities to z/OS. The one handful is the Software Management, but one thing that could be added is to download (or upload) enhanced holddata and receive it. Today it is only possible to list the missing HIPERs (and PEs) but r...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Include BatchPipeworks (PIPE module) in base TSO

I wish IBM would include Batchpipeworks (AKA the PIPE module) with BASE code ZOS TSO. Batchpipeworks is included for free in the base VM CMS operating system.Batchpipeworks has dozens of built in stages that allow for user written rexx stages to h...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / TSO 5 Not under consideration

Enhance Type 80s so I can tell when a UNIX authority that requires UID(0) was actually used

I would like to see a new type 80 field that would actually tell me if a UID(0) used some UNIX authority that requires its UID(0) attribute. RACF type 80 records already has a bit to tell me if superuser authority was used but it needs to be granu...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add CPU time to LDAP SMF 83 record

For better monitoring of LDAP performance issues, include CPU time instead of just elapsed time in SMF type 83 records.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 2 Not under consideration

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