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Core Infrastructure

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IOEFSUTL format and other functions should identify the Version of the zFS formatted or changed

When formatting a zFS, IOEFSUTL does not identify what Version of zFS (currently V4 or V5) that it actually formatted. As seen in the Use Case in this requirement, lots of data about bytes and traces and details of the service level of the tool it...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF: Allow mass-update for Workflows in the Workflows GUI

Allow some sort of "Mass update" function for the workflows in the workflows GUI. Currently, there is no way to modify multiple workflows when you are not the owner of the workflow.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Protect a SVIPA in one LPAR from being overridden with a DVIPA with same IP address in another LPAR on a shared OSA

A static VIPA (SVIPA) is defined in LPAR1 and a VIPARANGE of DVIPAs is defined in LPAR2 that overlaps the SVIPA. Customer inadvertently specified SVIPA as the source IP address for a FTP batch job on LPAR2 and the following actions were taken: 1) ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ZOSMF Configuration Assistant - Automatic backups Configuration Changes

Our team uses z/OSMF Communication Server Configuration Assistant to implement at-tls, ids, and ipsec policy on z/OS 2.2 Communications Server. We would like for configurations to be automatically backed up after a change is made in each. Several ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Log Stream Archive Function Forces Output Record

What we are looking for is a solution to the following requirement from IFASMFDL (taken from the SMF Manual Chapter 3, Using the SMF Dump Programs): For an ARCHIVE request, you must write each record in the log stream up until the end date and tim...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 3 Not under consideration

zOS OpenSSH extended attrs

Hello, Secure file transfers between mainframe ( client ) and remote Windows server ( FreeSSHD) abends with following message: FOTS0883 remote open ("...") : Bad message There were tested two cases:Mainframe -> Wintel file transfers ending with...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Future consideration

Correct the SET SMFLIM cmd so it doesn't do partial policy updates

I had to update our SMFLIM policy in production to add a program name to a rule with programs allowed to allocate 32GB of storage. I overlooked to do the syntax check first. I was unaware only eight program names are allowed on one rule, so SET SM...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF REST and multijob stream

When using the zOSMF REST interface to submit a multi-step job only the last job is returned. We need all jobs to be returnedFor example, we have this piece of jcl//WAITJOB1 JOB ,'ARYTST',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,// NOTIFY=&SYSUID,REGION=4M/*JOBPARM...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

C fopen() fails with errno 41 for VSAM VRRDS files; EDC5041I An error was detected at the system level when opening a file.

We have products that use the VSAM VRRDS file type. We would like to use Java and the JZOS Toolkit to open and read these files while remaining zIIP eligable. The JZOS Toolkit uses the C fopen() to open VSAM files and this fails for the VRRDS file...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

The AF_UNIX socket /tmp/unix.str created by Policy Agent option.

Option on PAGENT config or startup parms to specify where AF_UNIX socket /tmp/unix.str is created by Policy Agent. Currently file name and directory is hardcoded internally within PAGENT object code provided by IBM.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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