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    SRB. Allow user initiation of System Recovery Boost within an hour of IPL to avoid SRB period being burned performing systems checks.

    Quite often there are manual systems health checks after an IPL - emergency or otherwise - before systems are handed back to the business and productive workloads are restarted. By the time system checks are compete, most of the system recovery pe...
    about 5 hours ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 0 Submitted

    AMS LISTCAT to display EzNoSQL ordered index attribute on any display that lists cluster RLS data

    EzNoSQL Clusters defined that the ordered index attribute set to true behave and have different key format than those set to false. Currently the only method to retrieve this attribute is to open the DB and call the znsq_reports_stats and parse th...
    2 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Submitted

    Increase MAXSESSIONS Limit

    MAXSESSIONS limit of 2000 isn't high enough for out needs. Can you increase this value ?
    13 days ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 0 Submitted

    Add Support to CSNDSYX, for stronger Hashing Methods like SHA-512 for CKM-RAKW to get RFC5649 output.

    Add Support to CSNDSYX, for stronger Hashing Methods like SHA-512 for CKM-RAKW to get RFC5649 output. CKM_RSA_AES_KEY_WRAP is a two step process; AES Ephemeral Key gets wrapped with Public key (RSA-OAEP+SHA512) AES Ephemeral Key wraps the AES ...
    12 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Submitted

    Allow VSAM Data Sets To Consider Previously Used Volumes Prior To Extend Failures

    Allow new extents for VSAM data sets to consider previously used volumes before failing the extend with out of volume error.The feature will be very useful to Db2 tablespace and index extend processing which will provide additional Db2 object avai...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Submitted

    Please add the message IGD17162I to the Syslog/Operlog.

    Background: We want to use Optools/SystemAutomation to quickly obtain an overview of all datasets allocations that trigger this message, even though the job ends with RC=00. IGD17162I RETURN CODE (12) REASON CODE (5F01083F) RECEIVED FROM COMPRESSI...
    8 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Submitted

    OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

    The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 0 Submitted

    Make it easier to format a dormant CEEPIPI enclave in a dump

    When a dump contains a dormant CEEPIPI environment, the only handle available may be the token returned when the environment was initialised.This can be used in the "VERBX LEDATA 'PTBL(address)' command to format the PreInit table, but there is no...
    9 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 Submitted

    Allow multiple z/OSMF server tasks to share a common data repository within a SYSPLEX

    We would like to be able to run multiple z/OSMF servers tasks in a SYSPLEX that can be used to manage Software install, Zert, PAGENT policies (or anything else that has persistent data) in addition to REST APIs. Currently the persistent data canno...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Set permission bits in HFS object according to DOD STIC recommendations

    We want to be fully DoD STIG compliant and use zSecure to verify this. There are several USS objects delivered by Communication Server which don't have set all permission and/or audit bits set according STIC recommendations. Of course we could chm...
    15 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Submitted

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