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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

    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

    Messages to note which phase of automatic space management is running, such as extent reduction, expire data sets, etc..

    HSM executes many functions when automatic space management begins. The customer would like to see a message issued when HSM performs one of the individual functions of "PASS 1". It performs the following under "PASS 1".Pass 1 of DFSMShsm-managed ...
    24 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

    Move the start of the AUTOR functionality earlier in the IPL process?

    Can we move the start of the AUTOR functionality earlier in the IPL process? Before joining the sysplex and/or page data sets? This would be helpful to the IBM Z Cyber Vault platform. The IBM Z Cyber Vault footprint is getting more interest, and h...
    25 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Under review

    Need Protected ids to support passtickets

    To use passtickets the RACF id must NOT be protected. This makes those RACF ids vulnerable to password revocation denial of service attacks.
    26 days ago in z/OS / RACF 1 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

    RACF to use SYS1.RACFDB ( read only) and User.racfdb (R/W)

    I use zD&T( or zPDT) to provide my z/OS system. Every 6 months there is an updated version of ADCD (turn key z/OS solution) available with new catalog, and new RACF database etc. To migrate to this I have to find all the changes I made to my c...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

    Warning message for new data sets covered by a Generic Profile

    Allowing a warning period - IBM Documentation The warning message is issued for existing data sets, not for new data sets. For example, if you try to create a new data set that has the same name as a generic profile that does not give you ALTER ac...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

    The warning message should be issued for new datasets as well, not just for existing datasets.

    It would be advisable to extend the dataset profile warning to dataset allocation as well, rather than limiting it only to access and delete operations. Currently, notifications in the syslog and to the user are generated only for these latter cas...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

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