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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on May 1, 2018
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit ZOS-I-119 FTP-server: Command control by RACF.

Secure FTP-subcommands (inbound and outbound) Merged

We want to authorize the FTP-subcommands. Especially for incoming FTPs we want to restrict the usage of several subcommands.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jul 9, 2018

    It was pointed out that RFE 36468 was private, so it couldn't be viewed for voting. It has now been converted to public, so voting should now be possible.

  • Guest
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    Jul 4, 2018

    This is being closed as a dupe of RFE 36468. Please consider voting for that RFE: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=36468

  • Guest
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    May 17, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Communications Server
    Component - TCP/IP
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - RACF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
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    May 2, 2018

    Can I suggest you take a look at 'chroot jail's approach to drop users into individual directories? I presume you don't want users to see other users data?