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Core Infrastructure

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show EAV related information is ISPF DSLIST

In ISPF DSLIST there are NO informations related to the dataset Placement on EAV volumes. I would find the following Information helpful, maybe as a separate page (via PF10/PF11) in DSLIST: - value of EATTR- number of cylinder managed extents- agg...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

CLONE master catalog ,using ibm utilities, to an alternate name with no internal updates.

The option to switch from one master catalog to another.... staging for future ipls.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

ADRDSSU Dump: should not ignore migrated Dataset, at least give warning message for Migrated Dataset not included in DUMP

Hello Team,Our monthly maintenance process is lot dependent on ADRDSSU utility, where we take DUMP of target to Runtime and Runtime DUMP from one lpar to another using ADRDSSU. Last two months due to some SMS change some of our target libraries go...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Future consideration

Enhance z/OS IP Filtering so that rules can be defined to control access to ports that containers in zCX are listening on

Currently z/OS IP filtering only allows rules to be defined to control access to the TCPIP address that a zCX Instance uses. In a zCX instance, we can run a number of docker containers, each listening on different TCPIP Ports. Each of these contai...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

DFSMS - Change listcat to allow quick compare of size for compressed files

When doing a quick compare of the compress ratio using listcat it would be of great benefit to have the USER-DATA-SIZE and COMP-USER-DATA-SIZE stacked and not on the same line. To do a quick compare one has to copy paste the numbers (e.g. to a not...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Ways needed to change single options of IEAOPT

We need a way to set single options out of the scope of IEAOPTxx member without overwriting all the other options. There should either be a command "SETOPT option=value" that only changes the specified option. Or "SET OPT=xx" should only change th...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Future consideration

Please develop an AMCE Client for z/OS

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On z/OS this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
3 months ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Better support for multiple master catalogs in a sysplex

There are a growing number of system data sets which have sysplex scope, but which are VSAM. When z/OS sysplexes are configured with a single master catalog shared across all sysplex LPARs this does not present any issue. However, such a sysplex i...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer must support SMF 119(11)

Currently zOSMF Network Analyzer does only support analyzing the zERT Discovery Records from SMF 119(12). However with the introduction of zERT Policy enforcement there must be the option to analyze the SMF 119(11) records too. It makes not sense ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration