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Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

zSecure - Matching SMF Field-Names to zSecure Names

It is, to put it politely, a nightmare to locate the zSecure field name, when one has the SMF field name (from the SMF or IP manuals). SCKRCARL(CKADFTCP) helps in locating the zSecure field names, but that's all. To make life a lot easier, why not...
about 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 2 Future consideration

Perform ITM/Omegamon actions in SMU

It is useful to have a possibility to perform ITM actions (such as cancelling CICS transactions and DB2 threads) in SMU. Of course, this will then have to be done under the userid of the user, so that everything is neatly arranged via the existin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Default SMU Panel with INGPLEX Functionality

We're users of the INGPLEX commands with the TN3270 Panels. Some functionality is really useful such as the INGPLEX IPL, SVCDUMP, SLIP etc. panels. We would like to see a default panel within SMU which has the same functionality as the TN3270 Pane...
over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Include IBM Service Management Unite in Z Development and Test Environment

I work as z/OS System Adminsitrator and have a Z Development and Test Environment Personal Edition lencese. I use Z Development and Test Environment Personal edition to stay up to date on new software. As IBM Service Management Unite is a fr...
10 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Under review

Option to include content of allowlists in printed Compliance reports.

Currently, for printed Compliance reports, used for auditing purposes, the allow lists, nor their contents are included in the reports. In previous versions of STIG compliance reports, the details were visibile, and we are pursueing having those a...
almost 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

For NEWLIST HEADER=CSVT allow for the setting of file type and file name

Using HEADER=CSVT on an emailed report the attached file has a TXT extension and a file name of CSDATAU. CSVT means a comma delimited file with titles, why not create the attachment as a CSV extension, or allow the customer to set the extension. W...
almost 4 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 1 Future consideration

Provide a NEWLIST for all IBM-Defined and Site-Defined Sensitivity Types

Provide a NEWLIST for all IBM-defined and Site-defined Sensitivity Types that lists all sensitivity types, and selected attributes, regardless of the current access entitlements in the ACF2/RACF database.
about 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 5 Not under consideration

List of STC names in STIG rule RACF0660 should be customizable

RACF0660 reports the following STC's as incompliant on our systems: SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(GTZ) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(IEESYSAS) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(INIT) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(NET) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(NFSCLNT) SY9001 SYS1.PROCLIB(NFSSERV) SY9001 SYS1.PRO...
over 11 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

Performance improvements for running evaluation for non-compliant STIG report; AU;R;E

Current CPU consumption to run a non-compliant STIG evaluation is too great, making this feature of zSecure Audit unusable.
about 4 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration