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Persistent Pause support DISTPAUSE/DISTRESUME for EXTTARG

Our requirement is not simply to prevent traffic from being distributed until the zCX server and the Sysplex Distributor listener servers are active. We need the zCX instance to become an eligible target for workload distribution only when the com...
26 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

Add persistent store-and-forward buffering for remote SYSLOGD destinations

Problem description: The z/OS SYSLOGD currently provides only in-memory buffering for messages forwarded to remote syslog destinations over TCP. When a remote collector becomes unavailable for an extended period, the internal queue can become exha...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

Improve performance for mutex locks such as CEEOPML

C++ std::mutex is slower on z/OS compared to a manual spin lock and other platforms. Improving performance here would help most multithreaded programs in general.
5 days ago in z/OS / LE Submitted

Native BGP Support in z/OS Communications Server for Multi-Interface Binding

Add native Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) support to z/OS Communications Server to allow IP binding across multiple network interfaces without requiring redundant dual IP stacks. Description / Business Case: With IBM moving towards streamlining net...
5 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

Optimization output naviquest batch ACBJBARD and ACBJBAXV

We need a optimization output naviquest batch report ACBJBARD (Invokes ACBQBAR7 for dataset) and ACBJBAXV(Invokes ACBQBAR6 for DASD volume report). Currently, in job outputs the space values are left-aligned, and the information may be shown in KB...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest Future consideration

Update zOSMF to use &&TMPNETRC for NETRC data set

Use PassTicket authentication instead of NETRC data sets for FTP connections. To use PassTickets, the job dynamically creates a temporary NETRC data set, and individual permanent NETRC data sets are no longer required. The FTP step requires the fo...
11 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Submitted

Enhance IOS Channel Path Recovery to Detect and Isolate Persistently Degraded Paths

The current IOS channel path recovery mechanism is effective at detecting and recovering from channel path failures based on qualifying error thresholds within a configured time interval. However, there are scenarios in which a channel path may re...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS Submitted

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 1 month ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility Submitted

Allow RACF Containment to support RACF subplexes

We have a sysplex with > 1 RACF sublexes. there may be many customers who have a similar use case where they would rather limit containment within the data sharing group and not XSYS. Since ENF is used to route the event across the entire syspl...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

Add query parameter to read or write a set of records in a dataset

We would like to reduce redundant locking and response data volume. It could be as simple as "?start=10&end=23" which would only retrieve records 10-23. If either is not filled start defaults to first record and end to last record. As a bonus,...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

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