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Core Infrastructure

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CSDATA: ACEE and CICS

We would like to be able to choose if we want to access or not RACF Custom Fields from CICS. Via a parameter, for example in the SIT we could be able to decide if, automatically the CF should be brought into storage and anchored from the ACEE. Thi...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Delivered

GDK KEYFILE and providers on DB2 base rather than on Unix file.

We plan to use CDA on CICS/IMS environment, so in transactional process and not in batch mode. Because i can have many transactions per minute who used CDA we will prefer to have the configuration unix files on a database (for exemple DB2) rather ...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Add member information to Jobclass panel on SDSF

JC panel on SDSF is lacking the member information (available with D action char). The 82 SSI provide this data at the member level: Active? PXEQ? max, current, ... New columns or JC MEMBERS should show the detailed data in a tabular form.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

Adjust BPXPRM00 FILESYSTYPE for CINET to get a "clean" first IPL after a serverpac

I recently completed a z/OSMF serverpac install. I attempted the first IPL in the procedures and everything came up except TCPIP. TCPIP failed with the following message. EZZ4203I Z/OS UNIX - TCP/IP CONNECTION ERROR FOR TCPIP-BPX4SOC,00000003,FFFF...
10 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

SMP/E SYSMOD Publish Date

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 08/30/2022 Submitter Name: Todd J Gagle (Software Architect) Submitter Email: todd.gagle@broadcom.com Description: The SYSMOD element currently contains several dates associated with PTF. These include INST...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

omvs shell ipcs command does not include date, only time

While diagnosing a problem, the shell ipcs command was used. The output for the ipcs command displays time-information, however, it does *not* include date-information. So, there is no way to know if a 24- or 48- hour window has passed between CTI...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

SDSFAUX Service Class

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 03/19/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: The current documentation ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=customization-us...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

Add stepname and step number fields to SMF Type 42.6 records

There are times when data set accesses don't result in Type 14/15 or 64/65 records. The SMF type 30 records for the associated job show CPU and I/O info at the step level, but they don't include the data set name. The 42.6 records show the jobname...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Delivered

Allow IWQ for appropriate bulk traffic

I am requesting that zOS CommServer and OSA development modify the existing IWQ checks to allow more traffic to be handled by IWQ. We see a lot of duplicate acknowledgements because the TCPIP stack is receiving incoming packets out of order. This ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

zOSMF view or change tenant associations for template

Once you've completed the Add Template and Resource Pool for Tenant panels and specified which resources are associated, there is no obvious way to review or even change these definitions.For example, how can one know if the 'Allow resources to be...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

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