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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

DFSMS to store encryption keys of backed up datasets in new VVDS cell

Ability to see encryption keys of datasets included in DFDSS backups
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Future consideration

Enhance the HZS0201I message to include the "active" Check parameters

The current output (the HZS0201I message) from the DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAIL command displays the "DEFAULT PARAMETERS" and the "USER SUPPLIED PARAMETERS", but it does not display the list of parameters that are actually being used by the Check. One mi...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Not under consideration

NSSD Passticket Authentication with RACF protected Userid

During initialization of IKED-NSSD communication, IKED has to transfer a RACF Userid/Password or a RACF Userid/Passticket combination. When using a passticket, the RACF userid must not have the RACF protected attribute. When this Userid is used un...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

ISPF Enhanced PANEL Edit highlighting

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support enhanced highlighting for the ISPF PANEL language. ISPF PANEL highlighting is very sparse, not highlighting over 170 keywords used by the PANEL language. PANEL developers on z/OS will experience signif...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Planned for future release

zOSMF file transmission delay

When uploading or downloading a large file it seems like nothing happens, but eventually the screen will pop up. Just an immediate confirmation that file transfer has started and then when completed or stopped would suffice.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Job Output More Fields

Ability to display, sort, or filter job output based system or start time/date. Currently, only JOBNAME, Job ID, Status, Owner, Max-CC and Type are options.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

need way to get id of client of AF_UNIX stream socket

Other Unix-like systems provide a way to determine the user-identification number of the client that connects to a Unix domain socket which is using the SOCK_STREAM protocol to communicate. For example, on IBM AIX systems, the application can use ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

DFSMShsm file mode host: truncated pathname in messages ARC1000I and ARC1001I

At the DD ARCLOG Output Dataset, we have seen several USS paths/files with three dots in the middle (they were truncated, because they are too long). We know that the whole path-/filename can be displayed via the smf fsr record. However, for audit...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in Z/OS with EDCICONV don't generate carriage return

There's no way to convert a file from EBCDIC to ASCII or Unicode without copy the file to USS With the utility EDCICONV the file generated don't get any carriage return (crlf or lf). This can easily be done under USS. However, we are looking to pe...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration