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    Omegamon USS metrics without root privileges

    The Omegamon TEMS STC requires USS root privileges to gather z/OS UNIX metrics.Giving root privileges to any service is an unnecessary security risk.To solve this security issue, Omegamon could use UNIXPRIV or another form of security delegation t...
    2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

    This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

    Protect OIDC Certificates and keys with ICSF

    As described on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.4.0?topic=oidc-performing-sso-by-using-node, the nodeJS certificates can be stored on RACF database and is exported at runtime during NodeJS initialization using azfsso_launch utility. If the certi...
    15 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Submitted

    zMFA for zVM TLS based TCP transmission to RADIUS

    IBM zMFA for zVM supports UDP protocol based transmission to Generic RADIUS servers and does not support TCP. Please add support for secure TLS encrypted TCP transmission from zMFA to RSA RADIUS.
    16 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Submitted

    Module re-optimization

    We would like the capability to optimize a module that was previously optimized with an older ABO version in order to benefit of the new ARCH support granted by the newer ABO versions after the upgrade from Z15 to Z16
    about 2 months ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 1 Under review

    Callable Services & Other Ressources Access security and Traceability

    Callable services run within the CICS environment. In certain cases—such as ICSF—these services are critical, and so are the associated keys safeguarded in the Key Data Set (KDS). When a transaction performs encryption, CICS is granted access to t...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    The TS6.1 new msg of "DFHSJ0207 11/21/2025 15:44:14 CICTxxxx JVMSERVER JVMOSGI1 is running Java version 17.0.13." only goes to TDQ; would be easier to see on the CICS JESLOG.

    It would be nice to be able to browse the CICS region's JESLOG and immediately see the DFHSJ0207 message showing the JAVA level that each JVM is using. Our Operations staff implements 95% of our CICS changes and know how to verify things in the CI...
    20 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

    MFA for z/VM in-band authentication

    The MFA solution for z/VM would be more effectively integrated into customer environments if it offered in-band authentication similar to its counterpart on z/OS. On z/OS, the MFA code operates as a started task (STC), interfacing directly with RA...
    20 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Under review

    Create a New SMF type for Named Counter Server. The counters are requested via Db2 stored procedures, REST API, Batch jobs and CICS transactions.Our applications use DFHNCTR which is called via the 'CICS call interface ' and so the SMF 110 records are not inscope

    From time to time we have applications that use the named counter excessively resulting in the CF structure going into monopolization mode. We would like to easily identify these applications. We are concerned about over head in doing this so woul...
    22 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

    Reduce the repetitive definitions required to specify port pools.

    Currently, transport pools are defined by each type of agent Kpp_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_POOL_OPTIONS. This wastes the admin's time by having to specify the parameter for each agent. Additionally it increases the chance for errors by requiring the pool to...
    3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

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