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Stacking PCs only support 31-bit via the ETDEF service PROGRAM or ROUTINE. The hardware has supported 64-bit PCs for over twenty years. This support needs to be added.

Allows PC routines to be located above the bar.
about 14 hours ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

The LOAD service does not allow load modules with SPLIT attribute to be loaded into ADDR and ADDR64 areas. This makes loading a SPLIT module into ECSA and 64-bit COMMON difficult, as one must code two separate modules.

Simplify z/OS LOAD and utilize SPLIT as intended
about 15 hours ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

For the LOAD macro, it appears that the parameter EXTINFO was added wth the express purpose of avoiding a call the CSVQUERY. However, CSVQUERY must still be invoked to get module attribute information, such as RENT, who loaded it, etc. EXTINFO should return this information as well.

Finish the goal of avoiding a CSVQUERY invocation.
about 15 hours ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

Log RACF keyring and certificate usage to enable proper validation and auditing

Determining whether a RACF keyring or any RACF certificate is still in use by an application (e.g., started task, batch job, etc.) is a very challenging task. Neither RACF nor other components like zERT generate SMF records that capture the usage ...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

Deliver security / integrity / vulnerability notification information in a consistent field delineated format

Security / integrity and vulnerability notifications may be difficult to obtain, assess, correlate and act upon. Format and delivery mechanisms are obtuse, inconsistent at an industry level or may be missing altogether. Leaving each customer expos...
3 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Under review

RACF validation of external generated JWTs with fully OIDC support

Currently, RACF can only validate JWTs based on the IDTDATA definitions within RACF itself. In times of multi-platform solutions and higher security demands this is no longer adequate. Modern architectures consinsts of at least front ends and mayb...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

Introduce validation to not allow invalid characters in the DSNAME field in VRS

Although DFSMSrmm does not check quoted data set names for valid characters (per TSO RMM ADDVRS command doc), it would be beneficial to not allow invalid characters in the DSNAME field of a VRS because the accidental creation of a VRS with certain...
20 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Simplify management of DYNAMNBR and the dynamic allocation in-use attribute

The use of the DYNAMNBR parameter is not well defined in documentation. It suffers several problems and documentation is scattered amongst several manuals. There are z/OS components which make use of the control limit used by DYNAMNBR, but there i...
11 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 0 Under review

Allow user ID that authenticate with passticket to not have to set a password.

Currently user ID that use passticket for authentication still have to set a password in RACF even if it is never used. This creates overhead managing a password and renewal of the password where non-expiry passwords are not permitted. This reques...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

DFSMSrmm cleanup data set records

Most customers today are using VTS to create tapes. When the tapes go scratch, after x number of days, the data is usually deleted from the VTS. For example this is the case with TS77xx EXPIRY-HOLD=x days, meaning after RMM has scratch the tape, t...
22 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

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