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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

    MFA User Segment alerts

    Hello IBM, Our team thinks the addition of MFA segment related user alerts would benefit zSecure. Currently there are no alerts for adding or deleting MFA Segments on the mainframe and we believe that the addition of this alert would be beneficial...
    11 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 3 Future consideration

    Legthen the syslog receiver address.

    We have an automatically generated DNS scheme that creates Domain Names longer than the allowed field in the Unix Syslog Receiver address(es) area. It is possible others may have multiple IP addresses or long names as well, thus the current limita...
    2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Planned for future release

    Allow zSecure Alert to run a REXX command when an alert is generated.

    Currently Alert will allow us to run a single "TSO/RACF" command. The list of available commands is not fully documented (There is some detail in the documentation under the CMD option on a NEWLIST). However "EXEC" is not one of the allowed comman...
    4 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

    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

    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

    zSecure Alert - Align Mail header for Alert 1617 with message C2P1617I

    This is to request an update in the way zSecure Alert generates the mail for the master key rotation.See attached screen print for reference. Where the message contains both key types RSA and ECC as expected.The mail body holds the same informatio...
    7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Planned for future release

    UI-Optimization: various refresh and customize inconveniences (PLAz-Tool)

    Product Code 5698-LDA - “Auto Refresh“ after editing and closing an event would make working much easierIf the column width cannot be changed, please DO NOT implement our auto-refresh requirement. After the refresh, the temporarily changed column ...
    4 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

    A trace parameter for zSA with a set-table verbose level

    This is Tom Wai from TLS (Hong Kong Software Premium Support team) taking care of local z/OS accounts. Recently I had a monthly cases review meeting with HSBC's management team. In their memories, from time to time we suggested different trace set...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

    SA-internal command HSAET32 should generate a meaningful error message in the event of a problem.

    If an SA/NetView is restarted, all HSAET32 are rebuilt and this is logged with ON in netlog. Sometimes this doesn't work and the checker returns a "HSAET32 status ended, RC=1007". so what's the problem? In our case we have some trouble with the ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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