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    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...
    15 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Submitted

    Validate result for the BPX.CF service in the zOSMF Security Configuration Assistant

    Customers will get a notification "No CF levels are available for sizing calculation" if the BPX.CF service under Security configuration assistant is not defined. If there is a generic FACILITY class profile *.* defined, the validation result for ...
    about 20 hours ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Controlling who can submit jobs with specific SCHENV

    We want to control which users can submit jobs with a specific SCHENV. Currently, we control submissions using a JES2 JclEvaluation policy. However, the restriction should be much more granular and user-based.
    1 day ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

    Controlling who can submit jobs with specific SCHENV

    We want to control which users can submit jobs with a specific SCHENV. Currently, we control submissions using a JES2 JclEvaluation policy. However, the restriction should be much more granular and user-based.
    1 day ago in z/OS / JES2 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...
    21 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Add a radio button to select the correct Capacity record on the Temporary Model Conversion page

    Now that we have multiple temporary capacity records available. I would like to see a radio button selection to make sure you select the correct temporary record that you want to use.
    13 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    Better way of managing OPENs and CLOSEs of RLS files across Sysplex

    Currently SMSVSAM design treats operations of Open and Close of VSAM RLS files across the sysplex as a single thread process. In big environments this can be time consuming and hurt performance during heavy workload scenarios. It would be importan...
    29 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Planned for future release

    Move settings of password phrase rules from ICHPWX11-exit to RACF SETROPTS

    Today we use the Exit ICHPWX11 to manage our rules for RACF Password Phrases (e.g. length of Password Phrase, valid Characters). Unfortunately the exit is not supported by IBM. A sample is delivered with SYS1.SAMPLIB, but the most current version ...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

    Support automated install/update of OSA-ICC Certificates

    Large environments can have dozens of ICC consoles to support out of band access to TN3270/Master Consoles. If the organization has standards/restrictions around the sharing/reuse of certificates, there's a large operational burden in renewing the...
    22 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

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