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There should be an option to chose propagation of key expiry date to ICSF

Currently, in UKO, the expiry date for the key is always propagated to ICSF - which could lead to unwanted effects once the key is expired and data might not be accessible anymore. There is no option to create non-expiring keys. The propagation to...
30 days ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add more filters to Audit log for better insights

Currently, the audit log only allows to filter for a given date range a specific user ID a specific subject: key or key template uuid key label key template number It would be useful to also filter for Action and Subject Type, for example to show ...
30 days ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow z/OS keys to be rotated more frequently

Currently, you can only rotate a z/OS key (KMG keystore) every hour. This should be configurable
30 days ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

After rotation, it should be possible to restore older versions of the key

After key rotation on z/OS, both versions, the old and the new one, are active. The old key can't be modified anymore. If the old key gets deleted by accident, it is currently not possible to restore it because the key sync operation is not availa...
30 days ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance GDPS MGM 3site to support IPLs in Recovery region

In a MGM 3-site environment, major blocker with automating the region switch would be to IPL lpars in Recovery region. Since there is no Kp lpar in Recovery region, shutdown cannot be done from current Kr in recovery region. Only LOAD can be perfo...
10 months ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Simplified mechanism for surfacing GDPS operational alerts

There are 100's or more of Warning and Error level messages that GDPS will display based on ecosystem issues. Not every message needs immediate vs delayed attention. We would like to see an easily customizable mechanism for selectively surfacing “...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Extend the Application Class concept to other applicable resource types, such as Application Groups and Monitor Resources.

Q. Why is it useful? A. Reduces time and effort fulfilling "customer" (e.g. Support and Operation staff) requests. Q. Who would benefit from it? A. Both automation administrators and their customers: Administrators benefit by quickly inheriting pr...
6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Take advantage of z/OS SRB performance boost during GEOPARM reload

When performin reload of GOEPARM, for instance when needing to deactivate a PPRC link my customer experiences a high spike of CPU in all CECs causing in some cases service impact to very responsetime sensitve applicartions.2 Cases were opened:- Ca...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 21 Not under consideration

Enable SSL connections to Db2 z/OS for DWC

Security policy requires TCP/IP connections to Db2 for z/OS to be encrypted. Db2 systems may be customized with SECPORT only (no TCPPORT). Currently, configureDB.sh with RDBMS=DB2Z does not support DB_SSL_CONNECTION=true.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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