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    Add sudo command into the base install USS security

    Integrating sudo like Linux has would improve security by being able to use superuser privileges on a case-by-case basis rather than having all of your commands be superuser authorized. We'd also be able to set restrictions and timeouts in the sud...
    11 months ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 8 Planned for future release

    BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

    DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
    about 11 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

    Request for IEBCOPY to use Storage Above the Line(31 addressing mode)

    For PDS datasets one needs to compress them on a regular basis to regain unused space. One method is to use DFSMSdss compress which will invoke IEBCOPY to do the compress. IEBCOPY issues a conditional getmain for control blocks and tables in stora...
    about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

    DFSMS and improved volume selection in a Storagegroup.

    Any installation changes volume size over the years. From M3 to M54 and now many of us use EAVs as well.So the storagegroups is typically a mix volumes with different sizes; from a few GBs to many GBs. The key criteria for SMS volume selection und...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Planned for future release

    Modernization of IBM zOS USS Environment

    Looking to modernizing the IBM zOS USS environment to enhance its compatibility with contemporary POSIX standards and utilities. The current system, while robust, lacks certain modern features that are essential for efficient and streamlined opera...
    10 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Planned for future release

    Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

    When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

    An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

    As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

    Reduce CPU consumption of IOS HyperSwap API address space for a large number of addresses

    When executing a reload of the GDPS GEOPARM the IOSHSAPI ( IOS HyperSwap API address space ) consumes a lot of CPU in a short period of time when there is a high number of addresses under GDPS, causing some customer applications to slowdown and ha...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Planned for future release

    XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF ACTIVATION involving thousands of HW changes

    XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF activation On an z/OS image that did NOT issue the HW ACTIVATE-Customer observed that CPU usage for all MASTER address spaces was more than 10 CPs for the RMF Mon 3 interval just before the IOS502I message. Add...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Planned for future release

    Prevent IEBGENER overlay of PDS or PDSE dataset

    When using IEBGENER it is possible to forget to add a MEMBER NAME on the SYSUT2 which then corrupts the PDS or PDS/E. Sometimes you can recover but sometimes you cannot. It would be helpful if IEBGENER could TEST the dataset type on SYSUT2 and if ...
    over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

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