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    ADYUPDAT in batch

    With the inevitable adoption of DevOps processes, we're seeing a migration away from "hands on keyboards", especially for change activity. We're being asked to develop batch processes that can run as part of "train"-based deployments. Most z produ...
    1 day ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 0 Under review

    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 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Under review

    Increase MAXSESSIONS Limit

    MAXSESSIONS limit of 2000 isn't high enough for out needs. Can you increase this value ?
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 2 Under review

    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 ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Under review

    IEBPTPCH includes a module IEBPPCH1 which includes SIIS coding and it causes increase CPU TIME under z15 or z16.

    This client migrated hardware from zEC12 to z15 and z16 with z/OS V2R1 to V2R5. IEBPTPCH CPU time increased four times after migration of hardware and z/OS. We opened a case as TS019579686 and SME recommended us to open IBM ideas as follows. From ...
    7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Under review

    IODF default value of FEATURE and PARAMETER in the manual and the F1 help panel

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

    Allow differentiated SWT/TWT/JWT timeouts in SMFPRMxx by user or RACF group

    Currently, SWT/TWT/JWT parameters in SMFPRMxx apply globally to all accounts. This limits flexibility in environments where privileged users should have shorter idle timeouts than regular users to reduce the risk of misuse. Proposal: Enhance SMFPR...
    11 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

    Add an error message to the chown command if user is lacking a uid or OMVS segment

    You can't set a user as owner of a z/OS Unix file with chown if they don't have a UID in their OMVS segment, yet the command gives no feedback if this occurs, this means you can think you set someone as owner without actually being able to do it a...
    7 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Under review

    Add support for zstd

    A port of zstd is available at https://github.com/zopencommunity/zstdport CDA currently supports zlib and gzip, both CPU hardware accelerated.Don't believe the zstd port does this, but still would be useful to have this option; or at least see a T...
    23 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Under review

    Add error message to the chgrp command if group has no gid

    I suggest adding an error message to the chgrp command if the group has no gid or no OMVS segment. <insert incomprehensible IBM error code> Group has no GID, command failed And another error message if the group has no OMVS segment <inser...
    7 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Under review

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