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Add a refresh option to z/OSMF to re-read certificates from RACF ( without needing z/OSMF)

We use Lets Encrypt Certificates with our zosmf servers - these allows clients to receive valid /trusted certificates when accessing zosmf. To achieve this - we must restart zosmf everytime we receive new certificates ( weekly) - if we don't event...
20 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

password and passphrase to be exclusive at the userid level;

Currently it is possible for one userid to have a valid password and a valid passphrase so they can logon with either value. This tends to default the purpose of passphrases. You need to issue ALU xxxx NOPASSWORD to disable the use of a password. ...
29 days ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

"How to Power" "The General- Velocity-360-Wave-Compact-Disk-2026"

Potential Uses of Crystalline Silica, Quartz Glass, and Iron in a Layered Power Application If you are considering a layered structure for a power-related application (e.g., energy storage, thermal management, or electromagnetic shielding), crysta...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support Not under consideration

IHS 9.0 mod_authnz_saf does not support MFA / password phrase authentication via Basic Auth

Problem Statement IBM HTTP Server 9.0 on z/OS cannot authenticate users who have IBM Multi-Factor Authentication (IBM MFA) enabled in their RACF/ACF2 security profile when using HTTP Basic Authentication via mod_authnz_saf. Technical Detail The mo...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / HTTP Server Not under consideration

Request to Add SAN Entries to CICS Certificate Without Recreating It

We need to add SAN entries to the CICS certificate, but deleting and recreating the certificate each time is disruptive to all applications since all regions use a single common certificate. Is there a way to manually add the SAN entries and perfo...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

IRROPTxx should support &SYSNAME symbolic in TARGET NODE statement

reducing manual editing, this became apparent to us while adding a number of GDPS control lpars.
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

On CPU with capacity setting of 7nn (full speed), change default in IEASYSnn from BOOST=SYSTEM to BOOST=ZIIP or remove BOOST=SPEED from SYSTEM.

On hardware with capacity setting of 7nn, speed boost is not possible since the hardware is running at full speed. This is to avoid "IEA672I Recovery process speed boost is not activated - processor is already full speed" or changing the default i...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor Not under consideration

Usable output from java on z/OS generally, but especially z/OSMF

The output from java on z/OS is almost unusable. A case in point is z/OSMF. This is now promoted as a strategic part of z/OS and now seems to be a required task, automatically started at IPL. The current output has no timestamps, rendering it of l...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

"New Password/Pass Phrase Invalid" message should appear after the first attempt

In a change Password/Pass Phrase process, you must enter it twice, and after this second reenter, RACF can show you the "New Password/Pass Phrase Invalid" message if the new password or password phrase does not meet the security policies defined i...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF Not under consideration

Volume initialisations in ranges

Today we can only initialise a single disk volume with the ICKDSF INIT command. It's common practice for customers to perform the first initialisation of their volumes as spare volumes with a volser of 2 digit prefix and device address (eg XX1234)...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF Not under consideration

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