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z/OS

Could you add a new command ZCX to show zcx instances and their characteristics (Memory,@ip, level, ...)

today we issue these commands to get statistics for our ZCX : F ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,CONFIGF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKVERF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,NETF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,VERSIONF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,PCIE
5 days ago in z/OS / SDSF Functionality already exists

Would like LDAP to be able to List RACF dataset profiles using LISTDSD (LD), I am trying to list Dataset access on a Web User interface (UI).

LDAP is able today to list USER, Groups and General Resources, but is not able to List Dataset information.
11 days ago in z/OS / LDAP Functionality already exists

System SSL first capture doc

When ever there is an issue with SYSTEM SSL and we have a failure we always need to do a recreate of the issue or get more tracing. It would be better if we can get some type of first failure documentation through SMF records when an error occurs.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SSL Functionality already exists

HMC extract in JSON format using BCPII

We need to have a view of the HMC config to compare and do some statistics.
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii Functionality already exists

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.
12 months ago in z/OS / USS Functionality already exists

Currently there's no check in the COPY command for ADRDSSU to see if the data sets are the RACF databases or not

Hi - Sometime ago, there was a problem when the data sets which contains the RACF primary and backup databases were moved using ADRDSSU. The data sets were protected as recommended by the books as well as they were assigned the PSU attribute. Howe...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS Functionality already exists

USS Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion support for IBM-1141 and other code pages.

We would appreciate an enhancement in Unix System Services – Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion – so that it also works for code pages other than IBM-1047, such as IBM-1141. Currently, the following restriction exists: Only the EBCDIC IBM-1047 en...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS Functionality already exists

Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy

Currently the maximum CFs per Coupling Facility Resource Management policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection/LCD), a...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES Functionality already exists

All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.

I'm primarily interested in the openssh, specifically ssh-keygen, but all shell/utilities need to be code page tag aware. This is extremely important as some ported tools will create files as ISO8859-1 causing those files to be unusable by some of...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Functionality already exists

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - in regards of inconsistent records

When running a Validation report for a full day and message IFA742I is issued it only tells me:VALIDATION FAILED: INCONSISTENT RECORDS - RECORDS DO NOT MATCH EXPECTED TIMES However, the day has 24h hours, split into 15min SMF interval leading to 9...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF Functionality already exists

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