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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

    Enable MPPs and BMPs to connect to first *available* member of a Db2 data-sharing group

    Right now, when using Db2 group-attach feature of IMS, BMP and MPP regions support only connecting to the very first member listed in Db2 group attach name table. If the first member of the group is unavailable, then no connection at all can be ma...
    23 days ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Submitted

    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...
    14 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

    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...
    19 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 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

    Allowing generic RADIUS authenticator select a source IP address.

    Why is this useful? Allowing the selection of a source IP address in the generic RADIUS authenticator is critical for environments where: SYSPLEX-wide distributed IP addresses are used, which do not support UDP traffic. Multiple IP stacks exist, a...
    4 months ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication 0 Future consideration

    Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

    For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

    Full support of SMF102 data

    CDP / ZLDA only supports a limited subset of SMF102 records. At a minimum, IFCID 145 and IFCID 142 are required; ideally all of the fields within SMF102 are needed. The customer has chosen Splunk as a strategic platform for enterprise log analysis...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release

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