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Core Infrastructure

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Network activity need working prefix

You can use Filters but it is not that fast/easy. I would like to use the columns names. exampel: 'Jobname STCNAME' should filter all STCNAME. 'IPAddr 127.0.01' should filter that IP
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

PHP API and Perl API on EzNoSQL

Add PHP API and Perl API to EzNoSQL to allow more flexibility and integration with mobile and Web applications of EzNoSQL. Not many Web servers or mobile platforms use C. Java is more common. These are the other APIs: C and Java.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Future consideration

New verify option of DSS COPY for PDSE data integrity

Provide new verify option to ADRDSSU COPY function.Our customer encountered data page curruption of the copied PDSE. DSS copy ended RC=00 but some data pages of one PDSE "SYS1.SHASLNKE" were overlayed.Now our customer always verify PDSE using ISRS...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 10 Future consideration

SETROPTS PRIORITY WHEN RACF DATASHARING

Currently when a SETROPTS REFRESH is sent from a LPAR and it is a member of a sysplex and RACF is configured in datasharing with Sysplex Communication, the REFRESH is executed in all the LPARs (except the one that sent the command) under the *MAST...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Please modify SDSF RACF calls to class JESSPOOL to use the RACF group(not RACF userid) to validate if a user has access to view/modify output.

This would be useful because users in a group should be able to view /modify all output created by userids in their group. Currently, SDSF only checks the userid of the output and many RACF groups contain many(5-50) userids so it would be very ben...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists

Options in ISPF interface in z/OSMF

Hi, In most installations, in TSO/E login panel the command parameter has some CLIST or REXX programs specified for execution. The same option is missing in z/OSMF ISPF interface. Please consider to add this option. In absence of this option, we a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP/Restore MSS>=1

Because of address contraint (one SYSPLEX) we are using multiple MSS. We are using MSS 0 for MetroMirror (aka PPRC) primary devices.We are using MSS 1 for MetroMirror (aka PPRC) secondary devices. We are planning to do consistent Flashcopy for all...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Obviate need for base register when using EZASMI interface

Right now use of the EZASMI interface to TCP/IP sockets programming requires a base register. It would be nice if that were not the case because it hampers development of baseless programs. I'd find it reasonable if a solution were provided based ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Additional protection needed for critical data, in order to further prevent accidental deletion

On August 20 our storage team caused an unfortunate issue, while cleaning a volume on the behest of the customer DB Systel. On the LPAR BLP7, an outage was caused, as the active primary and backup RACF db-s were deleted. While this was remedied an...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

zERT Long running reports - Next to Impossible in the current state of zERT

Hi zERT is mainly used to get a cryptographic picture of the systems we manage. That inherently means it is used to analyze the entire TCPIP traffic on the stacks. Now with this much data going in as the input and we in our shop make it a lean ext...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration