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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

An enhancement on the graph so that the program to transaction link is displayed somehow even when that program is complied as part of the AD Project

When building CSD data Configuration objects, ADDI is not recognizing some of the transactions in some of the Groups within the CSD.

Improve synchronization process

Reduces time spent during component synchronization, when components are transferred from z/OS into AD server. Idea is like instead of doing full sync for all datasets (PDS/MVS) in the project, making some quick pre-scan, that would indicate if an...

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

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time For security reasons, my client explicitly requests the use of Windows authentication, not SQL. However, currently, the only sup...

Write all logs to disk at regular intervals so progress can be identified if the exe throws an un-trapped error

We have had a couple of instances where a build has been progressing and unexpectedly failed due to an un-trapped error. As all logs are built in memory and only written to disk at the end of the process, trying to identify or narrow down the pote...