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Core Infrastructure

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PGAD0712-1526 JCL enhancement to support codepage (CCSID) definition in DCB parameter

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: xgadweiSubmitters Company: GAD eG PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PGAD0712-1526 JCL enhancement to support codepage (CCSID) definition in DCB parameterHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCur...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode 2 Future consideration

PLAC0813-1625 Speed up zOS 1.13. path recovery improvements - extend to CHPID.link

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0813-1625 Speed up zOS 1.13. path recovery improvementsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Recogni...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Future consideration

Request for a display command for devices in a specific SS

I am not sure if this is the right place for this question, so please feel free to route it accordingly. We are using SS(0), SS(1), and SS(2) for various functions in our DASD addressing scheme. We are using SS(0) for our base addresses, SS(1) for...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

VERSION NUMBER needs to be picked up in the __dyn_t-structure

To be able to use dynalloc() a variable of type __dyn_t needs to be intialized with dyninit(): The __dyn_t structure must be initialized using the dyninit() macro defined in dyninit.h to ensure the proper "hidden" version indicator is used. Improp...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Incident log

The proxy userid and password is visible in the submitted PDUU batch job on spool.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

SMP/E Warning Message When All PTFs are NOT SEL

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR021903493User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE03037Title: SMP/E Warning Message When All PTFs are NOT SELSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : M...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

SMP/E: APPLY Processing Should Perform MOUNTs & UNMOUNTs for OE

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00070649User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE98503Title: SMP/E: APPLY Processing Should Perform MOUNTs & UNMOUNTs for OESubmitted By: US359049Originators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Kurt J. Quackenbu...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Option to restrict UNIX System Services authority to SMP/E work

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0827083956User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE08010Title: Option to restrict UNIX System Services authority to SMP/E workSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

JES2 jobs submitted with surrogate user id don't put message in JOBLOG

Jobs submitted with a surrogate user id don't put the information as the rest of the jobs. When a JOB enters the execution queue, it gets annotated time and date in JOBLOG. If the JOB is submitted with a surrogated user, that is not the case. Cust...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

incorrect Operlog processing

For an Incident CEA/CIM actually offloads the Operlog to an VSAM Linear Dataset and defines a Logstream. Only a later select of the 'Operations Log' in the zOSMF Web Interface initiate an 'unload' from the VSAM Linear Dataset into an sequential da...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 4 Future consideration