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    Initialize the auto reply facility earlier in IPL

    When performing a recovery, a site may choose to leverage the Auto Reply (AUTOR) facility to handle replies upon the loading of LPARS to limit/eliminate operator intervention. The AUTOR facility is particularly useful since it can be used to reply...
    3 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Under review

    When generating an RPTEXT report in DFRMM, tapes may appear twice due to simultaneous delete and insert operations on the Control Dataset (CDS), and a design change is proposed to ensure consistent data

    We are creating an RPTEXT report in DFRMM. It can happen that a tape is listed twice in the report output if the tape previously had the status "scratch" and is now being written by a batch job during the report generation. According to informatio...
    5 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 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...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

    zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

    Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Under review

    SDSF - Add RACF Template RACF Information

    Add to the SDSF panel 'RACF' two new columns that shows the installed and available RACF template version.
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 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 ...
    6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Under review

    Advanced Audit for DFHSM - FIXAUDIT volume too much for default HSM ODS Allocation

    When there is a sizable amount of commands being issued to DFHSM by a FIXAUDIT process, the DFHSM ODS file quickly exhausts its default space allocation which leads to DFHSM receiving an S878-10 abend and shutting down. In this example, once the O...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 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...
    6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Under review

    STGADMIN (ADMIN) AUTHORIZATION FOR REPLACE KEYWORD

    We would like to have a separate FACILITY profile STGADMIN.ADR.STGADMIN.RESTORE.REPLACE to be able to protect the replace functions for DFSMSdss STORAGE ADMINS. Storage admin should be able to restore any data set but not necessary be able to repl...
    20 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 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...
    6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Under review

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