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z/OS

Removal of the 59 volume limit for Db2 VSAM Datasets

On systems where Extent Constraint Removal (ECR) is active we have seen datasets now reach the maximum volume count (59) before getting anywhere near the maximum extents. This idea is therefore to request the removal of this limitation or signific...
23 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM Under review

Make Console Dump capture zIIP-eligible, enable dump processing BOOST capability, add dedicated real storage for Dump Services.

Are you tired of reading partial dumps from customers? Well we are tired of capturing them, and we're tired of them taking a whole minute to complete. I would like to see dump processing run outside the normal GP workload dispatching, possibly on ...
26 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids Under review

Availability of new unicode Dirham symbol (U+20C3)

Regulatory: On 27 March 2025, the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) introduced a new symbol for the UAE Dirham (AED).The official currency symbol—a capital "D" crossed by two horizontal lines— to establish the dirham as an international currency and...
28 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode Under review

allow one parameter in CEEENTRY that would control DSA stack storage type with 31/64 bit storage

While calling CEEENTRY under HLASM , it is difficult to control DSA storage type by the user. Goal is to allow user to control DSA stg either 24/31/64 bit.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / LE Under review

Preserve application-level User Abend Code upon JVM termination instead of overwriting it with U4094

The inability to propagate application-defined user abend codes through JVM shutdown is a fundamental obstacle to modernizing z/OS batch jobs with hybrid Java/COBOL architectures. When running hybrid batch jobs (Java + COBOL) inside a JVM on z/OS ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / LE Under review

Implement audit records for IND$FILE usage

IND$FILE doesn't have today good possibility to audit usage. Implement logging/audit possibilities for the utility.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / General Under review

Monitoring Initial Size of Coupling Facility Structures

It was noticed a problem during a Coupling Facility outage when was necessary to move structures from one CF to another CF. The rebuild/recovery process was not completed sucessfully because the INITSIZE of a WMQ Structure was smaller than the req...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES Under review

Detect long ENQ and contention on back RACF Dataset, abandon use of backup

Contention caused by a long ENQ on the backup RACF dataset can cascade and interfere with necessary RACF tasks. RACF should detect a long-held ENQ on the backup dataset and abandon the backup while action can be taken to resolve the long-held ENQ ...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF Under review

Change generic key label used by CDA from GDK.<user>.** to a user format.

We are ready to use CDA but we have a trouble with the generic key label used by CDA. The format of generic key label used by CDA is GDK.<user>.** When we use ICSF we have a normalisation of key because we want to know if the key is stored t...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Under review

TSO User Idle Timeout after 24hrs

Infrastructure and application sessions must be terminated after a pre-determined period of time, based on a risk assessment approved by the Global Security, to a maximum of twenty four (24) hours. The need is for a TSO user only to reauthenticate...
2 months ago in z/OS / TSO Under review

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