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Use NEWNAMEunconditional on zOSMF backup of source datasets

On systems where the HLQ of source datasets only exist on the source system, a catalog error on the target system is encountered when the restore job runs even though RENAMEunconditional is used to rename to a HLQ that exists on the target system....
about 11 hours ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Include Current Options on Modify Protection Panel

When modifying a protected dataset, you have to figure out what the current options are so you don't lose any of the options you are not modifying. Further, there's no way to tell the current email group without searching the VSAM datasets. When d...
about 14 hours ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Submitted

Add Additional Arabic Characters to z/OS Unicode 13488 to 420 Conversion

U+0625 - إ - ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW cannot be translated to CCSID 420. There are no HAMZA BELOW code points or Ligature code points for Alef With Hamza below in the current translation table. Currently, there are normalizations in the...
about 15 hours ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode 0 Submitted

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...
3 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Please add ONLYAT support in IRRSEQ00 and IRRSMO00

It's not an uncommon scenario that one LPAR is in an RRSF network but needs to have differences between it and other systems, so it would be really useful if the IRRSEQ00 and IRRSMO00 callable services supported the ONLYAT keyword, so we can autom...
3 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Adding Functionality into RMF Monitor III and Z Performance Capacity Analytics for MQ

Dear IBM Team We have been provided with the IBM MQ Support Pac to interpret SMF data and the MQCMD utility to use. I can confirm it is very useful in the absence if anything else, if you required to keep channel message information and data trend...
3 days ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Submitted

Encryption Facility should follow RFC 9580 regarding default algorithms lists. DES3 and SHA1 should not be included as they are now deprecated.

We are using Encryption Factify for z/OS V1.2 in conjunction with RACF to generate X509 Certificates and exporting the corresponding public keys. Our business partner is unable to use these public keys because they contain non-compliant algorithms...
4 days ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Submitted

DFSMSrmm: EDGAUD ability to select by data set name

EDGAUD Currently the EDGAUD utility used to generate reports using SMF record is limited to using following selections: DATE INTERNALRACKS USERSVOLUMES It would be useful to also include DATASET name. Only other way to get information by data set ...
8 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Submitted

Integration of Data Privacy for Diagnostics (DPfD) into z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard for sending data

We need to upload a lot of data, e.g. dump data, which quite often contain sensitive customer information. To make the process more transparent and integrated, we would like to request an optional step to be added to the z/OSMF Incident Log Wizard...
9 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

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...
10 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

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