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Core Infrastructure

Create a DEVSERV Console Command to CLEAR FENCE on DASD devices, when the JES system cannot reach SUB=MSTR or Scheduler state to submit Batch job.

After a recent issue with TDMF Copy over Channel Extension with the client's network dropping, an issue of source DASD being FENCED from TDMF losing connection to target DASD prevented a successful IPL on the Source DASD due to FENCE condition. Du...
about 17 hours ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF Submitted

Updates to Virtual Flash Memory using BCPii

We've been in a predicament during some testing where we're short on VFM (Virtual Flash Memory) and needing to allocate more, and finding that only certain storage values can be changed utilizing BCPii in the LPAR Activation Profiles, however, VFM...
1 day ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii Submitted

Support "//'PDS(member)'" file names in dlopen()

The dlopen() function should accept the same file name convention as fopen() does. Allowing datasets in the dlopen function call will allow finding exact DLL's rather than relying on search paths only, giving equivalent functionality to UNIX files...
1 day ago in z/OS / LE Submitted

AT-TLS Command to renew Certificates without manipulating the AT-TLS policy

Hello, It would be very helpfull to have a command that retrieves the Certificates information out of the ESM (RACF) without updating the parmeter EnvironmentUserInstance within the policy itself. The renewal proces of the certificate is by genera...
2 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

ICSF CSFPTRL: add options to list objects by from oldest to newest & newest to oldest.

Currently the sorting options for CSFPTRL - PKCS#11 Token List (ALL, RTL) sort TKDS object sequence numbers based on ASCII A-Z,0-1. For example: this makes it unable to return only the latest public certificate without additional sorting through a...
2 days ago in z/OS / ICSF Submitted

Add Microsegmentation / eBPF support for zOS platform

Add support for Microsegmentation, divides network into small, isolated security zones and applies access controls at the workload, application, or even process level rather than only at the network perimeter. Every workload gets its own policy, a...
4 days ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure Submitted

Support cross-variable conditional validation in z/OSMF Workflow Editor

Why is it useful? z/OSMF Workflow Editor currently supports validation rules for individual variables, but sometimes the valid value of one variable can depend on another variable. Native conditional validation would simplify workflows, reduce err...
7 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Enhanced Detection of Sysplex Distributor Traffic Delivery Failures

Problem Statement A recent incident exposed a gap in the visibility and workload management capabilities of the Sysplex Distributor. Traffic was successfully directed to the distributor; however, due to an internal distribution issue, packets were...
8 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

Could you add a new command ZCX to show zcx instances and their characteristics (Memory,@ip, level, ...)

today we issue these commands to get statistics for our ZCX : F ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,CONFIGF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKVERF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,NETF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,VERSIONF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,PCIE
9 days ago in z/OS / SDSF Functionality already exists

DFSMSrmm should honor generic RACF profiles during internal authorization checks

DFSMSrmm performs internal RACROUTE REQUEST=AUTH checks for concrete data set names but does not specify RACFIND=YES or enable generic profile matching. As a result, applicable generic RACF profiles are ignored and misleading ICH408I RESOURCE NOT ...
9 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM Submitted

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