IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal
This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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I am completely confused why IBM doesn't have a comparable sample or exit available for the zVM environment and is compatible or works between systems. With continued higher and higher security concerns and requirements we have been out of compliance for over two (2) YEARS because our mainframe environments do not allow the flexibility which is currently available on other platforms. Our users need to be allowed to define their passwords across multiple platforms which follows a standard put in place within our corporate environment. Currently, our zOS and zVM which allows password replication across environments cannot follow that standard because there are restriction put in place by basic RACF standards. Its our understanding the ICHPWX01 EXIT on zOS allows for that flexibility to be put in place, yet zVM does not have a comparable EXIT. Until an EXIT similar to the zOS EXIT is provided, we are DEAD in the water or will be forced to look to other alternatives. These type issues provide additional fuel to our senior management of getting off the mainframe platform. What can be done to push this type of request higher on your priority list?
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/VM
Component - z/VM
Operating system - Other
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 - Other
Source - None
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
Component - RACF
Operating system - Other
Source - None
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Security
Product family - Security
Product - IBM zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM
Component - Product functionality
Operating system - Other
Source - None