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Core Infrastructure

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Decrease the provisioning duration in ZOSMF's Capacity Provisioning Manager.

A 4-minute provisioning duration is to long for our mainframe. By the 4-minute mark we have already either shifted the workload balance between our mainframes or turned-on COD manually. We would like this dropped significantly.
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provisioning workflow for zCX instance provisioning

Current standalone workflow to provision zCX instances is very well made. We believe zCX instance provisioning should also be made available as a provisoning workflow, which would include all the additional configuration done by z/OSMF cloud provi...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future 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

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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Zert database access layer

The goal to have some level of role-based access controls within the zERT Network Analyzer application itself. For example, there could be a role that can only execute queries and view the reports, another that can create, update and delete querie...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future 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

r_admin source unknown in SMF records

Add requester job name to RACF records for r_admin requests
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

MVS "VARY OFFLINE" for an offline device should not request SYSIEFSD Q4 ENQ for 5 seconds

The current implementation for processing a VARY-OFFLINE-command is to request the "SYSIEFSD Q4" enqueue exclusively and cancel this request after 5 seconds if it could not be obtained.If due to some error or during allocation recovery some shared...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration

=3.3 Copy Relative Line Numbers

Provide support for ISPF 3.3 Copy (Panel ISRUMC2B) to select relative line numbers, as does with ISPF Copy within Edit (Panel ISRECPY1):Line Numbers (Blank for entire member, sequential data set or z/OS UNIX file) First line . . . . Last line . . ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Group initiator controls in jes2

Currently in Jes3 initiator counts can be controlled at class and group level. In jes2 although there is the concept of groups for classes, initiator counts can only be controlled at class level.I would like to see this introduced in jes2 to confo...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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