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REALLOCATE TEST should provide more screening for potential structure duplexing issues.

REALLOCATE TEST needs to provide additional screening for potential structure duplexing issues. For example, if a REALLOCATE is performed while a structure is in simplex mode with DUPlEX(ENABLED) . and only failed-persistent structures, the REALLO...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

XCF CDS Maxsystem Definitation

Reducing the Max system count for the XCF CDS's you can add the new CDS to the system with out a full sysplex IPL.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Add Sack Flag in IPCS with SESS Option

We would like IPCS to flag 'sack' packets when using the 'SESS' option when formatting a packet trace using IPCS.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration

Provide zEDC Compression support for FTP

Allow zOS FTP to deflate and inflate files using the zEDC card. Suggested SolutionModify FTP server and client so that global and local parameters (possibly using SITE and LOCSITE parameters) could1. Specify that a file be zEDC compressed before t...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Vary SYNTAXCHECK command

V TCPIP,,SYNTAXCHECK,SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(TELNET03) EZZ0061I VARY SYNTAXCHECK COMMAND BEGINNING EZZ0300I OPENED SYNTAXCHECK FILE 'SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(TELNET03)' EZZ0309I PROFILE PROCESSING BEGINNING FOR 'SYS0.ZOS21.TCPIP.TCPPARMS(T ELNE...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF to show local LPAR name explicitly

Need z/OSMF to explicitly display Local LPAR name on all z/OSMF panels, such as not having to look to the URL to determine what system we are working with.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

r_admin source unknown in SMF records

Add requester job name to RACF records for r_admin requests
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple Jobnames per rule in AT-TLS Policy. Mask won't work for jobs like J363100, J491001. J* will pull in all jobs.

1. A bank has provided 3 different client server certificates in addition to the usual server certificates. 2. Different applications FTP to the bank from a z/OS Lpar using a batch JCL. Mainframe is the client. 3. For each of the FTP job, we need ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

lightweight zosmf restfiles/ds option for faster minimal dataset list with attributes

Current X-IBM-Attributes options for the zosmf /restfiles/ds API enable retrieval of just the dataset names, dataset+volume, and a "base" option which returns all information consistent with ISPF 3.4. The base option can easily cause timeouts if t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer Performance Improvement

When importing 'large' SMF datasets with ~200m records, the zOSMF NCA Java reads all records to filter filter Type 119 records relevant. In sample this are around 2m records. This process runs for more than 4h (wasting CPU resources), which is ver...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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