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Core Infrastructure

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dss full DUMP CPVOLUME for OS MiniDisks like z/VSE

ADRDSSU dump is not possible for DASDs with multiple OS MiniDisks. Our customers have separated some DASDs into many smaller z/VM MiniDisks for use by his z/VSE. But same problem could occur for other products under z/VM, that create OS-Disks. Pro...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Converting DFSMS utilities (IEBGENER) to 31bit

For a Special isv application (Serena merant dimensions) we've had to activate XPLINK(ON) for some EPLI main routines. Same application uses/calls IEBGENER too and this combination isn't working now:CEE3194E An attempt was made to initialize an AM...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 3 Not under consideration

RACF: Avoid RACF Abend for a RACF TSO Comand due a missing Dynamic Parse Table

Currently RACF TSO commands (like LD, short for LISTDSD) can fail with a RACF abend if RACF "Dynamic Parse Table Initialization" either did not yet run or failed to run.RACF should be changed to return a meaningful return code (instead of abending...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

have CEEZ1IPT fail more gracefully

When an application is using PIPI, and the PIPI Main code creates children but then completes back to PIPI, future services that need the IPT will fail with an Abend0C4 in CEEZ1IPT due to not getting a CAA address from CEEARLU.CEEZ1IPT needs valid...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Improvements to the ability to ascertain whether zFS filesystems are in migration

There is currently no way to check whether filesystems are in mirroring complete status but waiting for a swap operation to complete other than using the bpxwmigf command. I'd also like a new reason code issued when the user attempts to manually m...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

EE over IPv6 needs to use the larger MTU of Jumbo OSAs or HiperSockets

When EE goes over IPv4 then it uses the available MTU provided by the OSAs or HiperSockets. Did you know that EE over IPv6 does not? It constrains itself to an MTU of 1100 bytes, even though OSPF is telling us the the available MTU is 8192 for Jum...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DFSMShsm Allow different numbers of backup versions and different retention criteria for Unix files within the same ZFS

The ability to use different numbers of backup versions and different retention criteria for Unix files within the same file system is required in DFSMShsm. As it is now in DFSMShsm it's not granular enough, since we require some files and/or dire...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

RMF SR to support blanks in passphrase

RMF SpreadSheet Reporter should support blanks in passphrases. Currenlty, when we define a SYSTEM within RMF SR, we try to connect to the z/OS system and we use a RACF Passphrase that contains blanks, the connection from RMF SR to z/OS fails with ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Not under consideration

ISPF STATS Stuck at 01.99

When a PDS/PDSE member VV.MM reaches 01.99, the stats stop incrementing and get stuck at 01.99. When 01.99 is reached can the VV be incremented to 02 and the MM be reset to 00 and continue updating up to the limit of VV.MM, then reset back to 01.0...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance RACF so that type 80s cut for CONNECT commands are consistent

RACF should be consistent about when it cuts type 80 records for CONNECT commands. That is not the case today. We always get them when the AUTH() parameter is specified even if the connection already exists. We do not get them if we issue this typ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

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