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Core Infrastructure

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TSO TESTAUTH should load authorized reentrant programs into key 0 storage

Problem: The TSO TESTAUTH command does not provide for locating non-reentrant code in authorized reentrant programs. It loads authorized reentrant code into subpool 251 which is not key 0 thus preventing abends during testing. The programmer could...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

modification to ceatool

When I run ceatool, I receive the error message : CEA0751E Function delete incident failed, return code -1, reason code 0x04480343, diagnostic words [0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00]. CEA0703I /bin/ceatool ended with errors.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 4 Future consideration

BPXWUNIX to function with binary input streams

Encoding the same input data EFBE8AEFBE9FEFBE9D0A - we get two different results: 776K776f776dCg = (good case) or 776K776f776dChU = (bad case)
about 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

zOSMF R.M. logical utilization improvements for users with many LPARs

Adding some metrics to a dashboard that are only available per LPAR is extremely annoying and time consuming when dealing with many LPARs. I would like to request some metrics that are available on the CPC panel of RMFIII be made available as metr...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

Would Like to see CPM More Agressive for Increasing Group Capping

We would like to see Capacity Provisioning Manager be more aggressive for increasing the group cap by giving the user more options and more granularity. In our case it took an hour before CPM increased the group cap.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 2 Future consideration

Netcat command unavailable to use with ProxyCommand (trying to SFTP thru Proxy Server)

I tried to sftp thru ProxyServer using option ProxyCommand. Using directiver from openssh.org it is advised to use netcat command, which does not exist in Open Ported Tools.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 2 Future consideration

Improvement on FFDC for z/OS & VTS mount state discrepencies

We have had many instances over the years of mismatches between the VTS device mount state in the VTS and z/OS. The latest of these was being pursued through PMR 15331,122,000. In almost all of these instances we get some notification through a z/...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

ARM feature or exit to influence TARGET_SYSTEM selection

Need a way to influence the system that ARM selects for a restart. Either new function or an exit that the customer can code.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Support additional headers in unsuccessful z/OSMF API requests

Currently when the z/OSMF API responds with a request status other that 200, additional headers are not included. This can be an issue if you are working with cross site requests as the required CORS headers are not included in the server response...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add Scheduling of Real Resources to JES2

Provide a JES2 facility to schedule jobs based upon their real resource requirements and the current availability of those resources in the system. The facility must extend to a Multi-Access Spool environment. The system (not the operator or syste...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration