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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

RACF LISTUSER command to show GROUP connects in alphabetical order

Imagine you are requesting access to a z/OS lpar, and you have a long list of GROUP connects to request. As your access requests are processed, you can go back to the system and issue the RACF LISTUSER command to confirm the GROUP connects are cor...
11 months 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

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

SOCKS Configuration - Limitation

We have a problem with the SOCKS configuration in Mainframe that dont allow the use of DNS on the FTP server destination and only allow the use of IP Address. My concern here is that the network department setup rules on the SOCKS Server (the one ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

IEBPDSE enhancement for data pages overlaid

Our customer encountered JES2 ABEND because HASJES20 was corrupted after the PDSE had been copied from the test system. Contents in 4 data pages(just 16KB) were certainly different from original. But IEBPDSE utility cannot check out. Our customer ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 5 Future consideration

The HFS unload utility IRRHFSU should be officially supported by IBM and also made available as an assembler program.

The HFS unload utility IRRHFSU should be officially supported by IBM and also made available as an assembler program.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 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

Further modify the PDSE monitor's processing

Through cases of Blocked Workload when lower priority tasks hold resources but do not get sufficient CPU time to complete their work and then release those resources which are in turn being waited on by higher priority tasks. • Seen in CPU constra...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

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