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Enable create for a sequential extended dataset to take advantage of pervasive encryption

It was recently found that even though we were passing a DATACLAS that specified EXTENDED attributes, ZOAU appears to be overriding it and it was still landing as a BASIC or LARGE dataset type. We had tried multiple combinations and research befor...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Submitted

Enhance jsub to be event driven

It would be great if we could enhance jsub to be notified by an even when the submission has finished, rather than by polling the JES log. In our testing, especially for short running jobs, which make up the majority of our test suite, we have fou...
9 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

ISPF statistics retention for dcp operations

For our Ansible-based deployment solution, we use the zos_copy module from the ibm_zos_core collection (version 1.8.0). We note the absence of ISPF statistics on our PDS and this is particularly penalizing for our PARMLIBs. The objective of this p...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 7 Planned for future release

zSecure - SMF Report start-end time issue when spanning a calendar day

zSecure Event reporting does not support 'official' relative time references. When running a report spanning two or more calendar days, the From must be smaller than the Until as the Today-1 is not honored, as seen below. (sorry for the bad format...
about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 1 Planned for future release

Stig RACF-ES-000200 and CICS users

Hi, We run hundreds of CICS regions unser the same Grp , however the STIG rule ES-000200 is as follow : CSVLLAS_uca_permits rule: UPDATE and higher access to a resource protected by a FACILITY class CSVLLA.dsname profile allows users to work with ...
11 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

zSecure - CIS-OS-6.3.3 USS Banner support for multi freeze file input

I have two Systems a) CH01MSYS (M1) and b) CH02MSYS (M2) part of the same complex MAINT. Running the validation for each system individually works as expected. However, in the zOS Sysplex/USS environment the setup is a bit special and the validati...
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Under review

Add regexp support to dgrep

Add possibility to search with regexp patterns in dgrep, similarly like grep has. This improves usability of dgrep.
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter, instead of having to hardcode the dataset name: In the JCL: //DDIN DD DSN=XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ,DISP=SHR In the Python code: datasets.read('//DDIN') instead of: da...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Planned for future release

In zSecure Audit option AU.S > RACF control reports, please test if the primary and secondary RACF database is on the same volume

Through recent security assessments, I have noticed that some customers have their primary and secondary RACF database on the same volume. If the volume becomes inaccessible / someone takes it offline, you have effectively lost RACF processing, wh...
about 1 month ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Under review

IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
4 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review