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Core Infrastructure

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Secure RMF CPC panel

We are looking for a supported way to secure the RMF CPC Capacity panel (ERB3BFI) to restrict access to technical support staff only (whilst allowing access to all other panels) I have not been able to find anything in manuals that describes a for...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

MONITORING CF LINKS

IBM defined a specific msg-ID IXL158I to identify CF Link with status NOT OPERATIONAL but we don't have msg-ID when the link is ONLINE-DEGRADED. Instead, link DEGRADED is provided as a result of the command /D CF,CFNM=CFXX but isn't the more effic...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Java Support for AT-TLS aware and controlling applications

In order to provide an AT-TLS aware or controlling application that is written in Java, you need to be able to call the IOCTL() function from a JAVA native call (JNI) written in C or assembler. The call also needs to provide access to the socket d...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Change of behaviour for the USS 'tail' command

The USS 'tail -1 <file>' command is outputting 2 lines if the final line in a file does not end with a new-line character: >cat tt aaa bbb ccc>>od -h tt 0000000000 81 81 81 15 82 82 82 15 83 83 83 0000000013 >tail -1 tt bb...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Planned for future release

VSAM GSR support for encryption KEYLABEL

We have a VSAM application that uses GSR. If we attempt to establish an encryption KEYLABEL on the cluster the OPEN the fails with RC=166 along with IEC161I 121-163. We have a business and client need to be able to encrypt the DB using Pervasive E...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Planned for future release

Enhance SDSF Log Read Options

Please provide an option to filter for specific messages when reading the log. ISFLOGSTARTDATE works to set a starting date with ISFLOGSTOPDATE setting the ending date for the search. Having something like ISFLOGMSG option to limit the results to ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

LE's Heap Latch should be FIFO, not LIFO

Serialization via LIFO has the negative effect of leaving the first task in to never obtain the resource when processing is very busy. FIFO allowed everyone the chance to get in and get out with little delays even during a busy time.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Eliminate IEBCOPY Restriction: Allow Multiple Input PDSs to be Sequentially Unloaded in a Single COPY/COPYGROUP Operation

Requirement: IEBCOPY should allow multiple input partitioned data sets to be unloaded when the objective is to produce a single output file in sequential format. This restriction is undocumented in the utility manual and can only be found in the m...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

Add hardware-level utilization information for PCIE cards

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSSHARE012857: Voting Priority=2.9 +4=2 +3=4 +2=9 +1=6 abstain=2 Priority=2.1 (Please ignore the other vote of 0.0) Currently, the RMF PCIE XML report provides information about the use of a PCIE card for ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

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