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    Copy user by overtyping their RACF username

    Being able to overtype a username to copy would allow quicker and more intuitive copying of a user in the ISPF interface. This functionality was available in a similar non-IBM product that is unfortunately now deprecated.
    over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 1 Not under consideration

    zSecure - RVARYPW algorithm report

    With the newly introduced RACF APAR OA65905 supports for the RVARYPW the KDFAES algorithm. However, it is not visible in zSecure SETROPTS panel which algorithm is in use. It only reports if a password is used or not whereas the 'regular' password ...
    over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 3 Functionality already exists

    COBOL DISPLAY prefixed by program-id - compile option

    If COBOL developers make DISPLAY in CICS and do not ensure that the DISPLAY-text contains a unique identifier, it can be very difficult to find the programs, that make the DISPLAYs and a lot of parallel DISPLAYs can be a serious performance proble...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

    Support for User-defined functions in programs utilizing SQL

    At the moment it is not possible to compile a COBOL module using "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" and EXEC SQL. This severely limits the usability of "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" in system which uses SQL/DB2 as the ...
    10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Planned for future release

    Need to establish a Permit Creation Date

    We are attempting to cleanup the RACF DB of permissions that are inactive. Leaving permissions in place that are not in use can be a security risk. Access Monitor via option AM.8.2 appears to cleanup inactive / unused permissions however there is ...
    over 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration

    Reporting on the CSDATA Segment

    We use the CSDATA segment heavily on User IDs, so that data about the user is stored on the User ID. We don't have to look up information in some other zOS dataset or some off host repository. But we need to be able to effectively report on that d...
    over 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Planned for future release

    JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL specified at run time

    It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL phrase of JSON PARSE can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Enable user recreate process in restricted mode

    Currently it's not possible to use the functionality "Recreate User" (RA.4.6) in restricted mode. The restricted mode is required when RACF distributed administration is used, that is, each administrator is restricted to its scope.
    4 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 1 Under review

    start debugging in second program called by CALL

    It is not currently possible to configure the debugger to start in a program other than the first in the chain (as is possible with other debuggers) if the first program calls the second with CALL and not with EXEC CICS LINK. It would be very usef...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / Linux 1 Planned for future release

    Handle abend when using JSON GENERATE statement

    We are facing an issue when using the JSON GENERATE cobol statement with cobol variables containing incorrect value. For exemple, in the case of a numeric variable containing spaces, the order triggers an ASRA abend and the generated json buffer i...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

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