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Status Delivered
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 22, 2022

Reuse of address groups in zOSMF Configuration Assistant

As more and more policies can be managed by zOSMF Configuration Assistant it would be very beneficial if the address groups can be re-used in the policies to:

  • Speed up creation of new Policies

  • Prevent duplication of data

  • Simplify Management of addresses applying to all policies

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 14, 2023
    APAR PH53064 added the capability to copy address groups to and from zERT Policy Enforcement technology.
  • Guest
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    Aug 22, 2022

    Currently it's required to maintain the address groups for each policy individually. As we currently use AT-TLS and have defined many address groups we cannot re use them for the zERT policy (or any other) and have to add them all again one by one, this is very error prone and time consuming and we would have to maintain exactly the same addresses for all of the policies in use many times instead of only once.