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    Allow VSAM Data Sets To Consider Previously Used Volumes Prior To Extend Failures

    Allow new extents for VSAM data sets to consider previously used volumes before failing the extend with out of volume error.The feature will be very useful to Db2 tablespace and index extend processing which will provide additional Db2 object avai...
    12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Submitted

    SDSF - Output Class 'OUTCLASS' Panel

    There are for most of the definitions like Jobclass (JC), SPOOL definition (MAS,SO,SP), System info (PROC,INIT) but no quick overview for the Output Class "OUTCLASS" definition. This request is to provide another JES related panel for OUTCLASS to ...
    1 day ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Submitted

    Add a radio button to select the correct Capacity record on the Temporary Model Conversion page

    Now that we have multiple temporary capacity records available. I would like to see a radio button selection to make sure you select the correct temporary record that you want to use.
    10 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Submitted

    OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

    The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
    17 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 0 Submitted

    Allow multiple z/OSMF server tasks to share a common data repository within a SYSPLEX

    We would like to be able to run multiple z/OSMF servers tasks in a SYSPLEX that can be used to manage Software install, Zert, PAGENT policies (or anything else that has persistent data) in addition to REST APIs. Currently the persistent data canno...
    18 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Better way of managing OPENs and CLOSEs of RLS files across Sysplex

    Currently SMSVSAM design treats operations of Open and Close of VSAM RLS files across the sysplex as a single thread process. In big environments this can be time consuming and hurt performance during heavy workload scenarios. It would be importan...
    26 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Planned for future release

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for awk

    awk is a powerful scripting language for text manipulation in the USS arena. ISPF should support this language. All ISPF users would benefit from this enhancement.
    3 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

    Provide ACEE change correction capability

    Currently ACEECHK capabilities in RACF detect unexpected changes to the ACEE control block and its associated control blocks (TOKEN, ACEX, etc.) and issue IRR421I messages showing what has been changed. Please provide an option to change the contr...
    4 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

    Support automated install/update of OSA-ICC Certificates

    Large environments can have dozens of ICC consoles to support out of band access to TN3270/Master Consoles. If the organization has standards/restrictions around the sharing/reuse of certificates, there's a large operational burden in renewing the...
    19 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Submitted

    Move settings of password phrase rules from ICHPWX11-exit to RACF SETROPTS

    Today we use the Exit ICHPWX11 to manage our rules for RACF Password Phrases (e.g. length of Password Phrase, valid Characters). Unfortunately the exit is not supported by IBM. A sample is delivered with SYS1.SAMPLIB, but the most current version ...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

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