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    Enable SRB during IODF (soft) Activate

    Activating a new IODF can be a time-consuming process, especially when dealing with multiple sysplexes from different customers distributed across all CPCs that require activation. The process involves distributing the IODF to all sysplexes and pe...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Under review

    Use EMCS console which are not Userid dependent in workflows

    The workflow "Configure AI Framework for IBM zOS" step 4 uses a EMCS console which name contains the userid ending with "CN". This means that one have to create a special user which is ending with "CN". Creating a new userid is not a as simple as ...
    8 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Future consideration

    z/OSMF StorageAPI Get MegaBytes/GigaBytes instead of Tracks, get Used-Percent

    Hello, we are using /zosmf/storage/rest/v1/storagegroups for checking our z/OS Storage Groups for enough freespace / storage Monitoring. We found out, that we are only able to get trackNumbers, but not GigaBytes as measurement unit,in ISMF (ISPF) ...
    7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    Currently there's no check in the COPY command for ADRDSSU to see if the data sets are the RACF databases or not

    Hi - Sometime ago, there was a problem when the data sets which contains the RACF primary and backup databases were moved using ADRDSSU. The data sets were protected as recommended by the books as well as they were assigned the PSU attribute. Howe...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Functionality already exists

    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 ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

    Use NEWNAMEunconditional on zOSMF backup of source datasets

    On systems where the HLQ of source datasets only exist on the source system, a catalog error on the target system is encountered when the restore job runs even though RENAMEunconditional is used to rename to a HLQ that exists on the target system....
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Include Current Options on Modify Protection Panel

    When modifying a protected dataset, you have to figure out what the current options are so you don't lose any of the options you are not modifying. Further, there's no way to tell the current email group without searching the VSAM datasets. When d...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Submitted

    Add Additional Arabic Characters to z/OS Unicode 13488 to 420 Conversion

    U+0625 - إ - ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW cannot be translated to CCSID 420. There are no HAMZA BELOW code points or Ligature code points for Alef With Hamza below in the current translation table. Currently, there are normalizations in the...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode 0 Submitted

    Add a command to know who is using resource for a scheduling environment

    We use scheduling environment to schedule execution of job on LPAR who have resources available for the job. The job start on the good LPAR but have several steps. It happens sometimes that after the job start, one resource become unavailable so w...
    8 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

    Allow the option to enable Policy Based Routing for routed traffic

    In our company we have serveral different customer networks and different default gateways, to handle this we use Policy Based Routing (PBR). We want to provide zCX instances to those customers, but zCX is routed traffic, which currently is not su...
    6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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