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Extension of "Manage System Time" tab overview with NTP configuartion on z16 oscillator cards

Beginning with IBM z16, the STP physical connection to the time servers (PTP or Network Time Protocol (NTP)) is no longer established through the HMC. The time servers are connected now directly to the CEC (bypasses the SE connection).So each of t...
about 10 hours ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

ADRDSSU enhanced Unix Support

UNIX Support for ADRDSSU was introduces with the DFSMShsm Enhancements for Backup of Unix Files. The current DSS Design for USS files doesn't allow to use DSS with the same comfort for USS files as for classic datasets, as there is no support of s...
about 18 hours ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Submitted

An export&import functionality for HMC Information inside Activaiton Profiles

I would like to suggest creating a functionality to transfer all the HMC LPAR and CEC information inside the "Customize/Delete activate profile" to an XML, zOS datasets or any other kind of format, making it easier to see the history of changes on...

how to identify the JVM's type as z/OS Connect when z/OS Connect is running with Java17.

Our goal is how to identify the jvm type as z/OS Connect when z/OS Connect is running with Java17.Current method used is to examine the USS callable Service BPX1GTH to scan the returned values. The returned values are truncated, and the item searc...
about 8 hours ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Support the use of underscores in URIs

Our customer's web administrators often generate names with underscores in their URI/URL. I was told this is not supported because underscores are not defined as being part of hostnames. Yet, we're talking about URIs, not hostnames. As per IETF RF...
1 day ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Submitted

selecting tape volumes to be recycled, or excluded from recycle process, by sms tape storage group

Today's DFHSM RECYCLE command allows to include/exclude volumes by volser range, or volser list, or tape residence. It would be nice to have an option to select volumes using the sms tape STORAGEGROUP as criterion. This would help in keeping to se...
1 day ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Submitted

Provide a negative exclude command for EDIT and VIEW

Provide e an NEXCLUDE command similar to FIND and EXCLUDE that excludes all lines in the specified range that do not match the specified picture, regex or string in the specied columns.
14 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Provide more diagnostic data for Coupling Express Long Reach Adapter Ports

When verifying connectivity of multiple Coupling Express ports,it's time consuming to obtain information such as Tx and Rx power levels to diagnose the health of connections and requires the user to click through various panels on each adapter to ...

Add COBOL support for EzNoSQL

COBOL is probably the most common application language running on z/OS and not having native support for EzNoSQL feels like a missed opportunity in the ongoing modernization effort. Enterprise COBOL for z/OS already has support for reading regular...
14 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Submitted

Issue a joblog error/warning message when the Java level is below the zOSMF requirement

The documentation for each zOSMF version notes the Java level prerequisite requirement for latest version of zOSMF. Often customers have trouble bringing up the server due to running an out of date version of Java but there is no clear message tha...
14 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted