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Core Infrastructure

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Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Provide consistent easy RCF link from all formats

Provide an easy way to submit reader comments, consistent between the HTML and PDF versions, with adequate instructions. Currently the PDF versions link to a documentation page that does not have an obvious link for reader comments.
2 months ago in z/OS / Documentation 1 Submitted

zopen utilities as part of standard USS

Make the zopen utilties part of BCP. This way everybody will have it 'on their system' My suggestion is to put all 'that cool stuff' in /zopen There's nothing more to it to be honest ;) You might wanna start with a POC-trial-run in the next ADCD d...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Under review

Syntax check for configuration member

It would be great to have an option to verify syntax of configuration members, namely ATCCON, ATCSTR, to prevent any possible issues to be found out only during IPLs, which are often done during weekends and resolution of such issues can be slowed...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Under review

Remove DES as an option for password encryption for newer releases of RACF

Please can you consider removing DES as an option in RACF in a future release of z/OS & RACF, to force sites to upgrade to KDFAES. I teach a lot of Auditors about Mainframe Security and they are very surprised to learn that DES is still a thin...
15 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

Usage of the "Common Plattform Enumeration" (CPE) for IBM Products in the "IBM Z an LinuxOne Security Portal" within Resource link

Given that vulnerability and patch management is not only a concern of the z ecosystem in an organization, the software to manage vulnerability data should be able to handle sources and vulnerabilities for multiple platforms. Therefore a standardi...
11 months ago in z/OS / General 5 Not under consideration

REST-API for z/OSMF Storage API for ScratchTape-Monitoring

We have SMS-managed Tapes, so the current value of scratch tapes is visiblein ISMF under TapeLibrary options. We also can use a batch job for counting the scratch tapes.It would be useful, if the current value of scratch tapes would be accessible ...
9 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Submitted

Support for DCOLLECT and SMF110 in SMF Explorer

Understand that the SMF Explorer isn't supporting all available SMF records. But if SMF Explorer supports DCOLLECT and SMF110, then we can plan to migrate to Python from MXG, as these DCOLLECT and SMF110 are the most important SMF records that we ...
9 days ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 0 Submitted

To have parameter SYSSYM set to ALLOW as default instead of DISALLOW.

Today in zOS2.5 we have parameter SYSSYM set to DISALLOW as default for all jobclass in the system. With all the migration that is happening and will happen from JES3 to JES2 customers will need at some point to change this parameter to allow if t...
4 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Not under consideration

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