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Core Infrastructure

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DFSMS RMM RM VRSEL

With RM EXPDT, only the first volume in the SET needs to be changed and all volumes in the SET are updated and RETAINBY SET is maintained. . However, with RM VRSEL, if you were to update the volume via RMM ispf dialog(panels), another panel will b...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

CHECK(IBMUSS,USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS) make MTAB updatable.

IBM Healthchecks are very good to follow, to avoid an outage. We use them a lot! But if a mount statement of a ZFS data set is wrongly defined in BPXPRMxx. The Healthcheck (IBMUSS,USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS) complains with an exception. "ZFS NOT MOUNTED. ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

New cross reference function

In large configuration with many LCU defined on few boxes there is the possibility to misconfigure HCD and give to one physical LCU different definitions that could leave to problems described by OA63553. At the present time the only way we have t...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / HCD 5 Not under consideration

Add SORT command on panels to help in avoiding problems for apar OA63553

In large configuration with many LCU defined on few boxes there is the possibility to misconfigure HCD and give to one physical LCU different definitions that could leave to problems described by OA63553. Having the ability to sort by CUADD on pan...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Not under consideration

ISREMSPY should honour screensize

ISREMSPY is used to debug edit macros. However, for datasets with an LRECL>72, the simulated screen produced by ISREMSPY is limited to 72 columns, even when used on an 62 rows by 160 column display. It should be enhanced to honour the current s...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF supplied ftp profiles need to be GDPR compliant

z/OSMF supplied ftp profiles can't be modified to require passwords (per GDPR compliance) and can't be removed. They are useless now and confusing, as they can't be removed and can't be modified.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Save progress during deployment of Portal Software Instance

If connection is lost all progress on that step is lost. This causes several extra hours. Now you can only save progress between steps.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Kerberized FTP with Sysplex High Availability

FTP is a highly used way to transfer files from/to the mainframe. In the modern time it is a well known way to use Kerberos for authentication and Single Sign on. Currently, FTP on z/OS can be configured to use Kerberos only with the Host IP addre...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

SMF Type42 should report Flashcopy statistics.

SMF Type42 already supports zOS DFSMS Advanced Copy Services statistics for Concurrent Copy (subtype4) and XRC (subtype11). Both volume level and data set level FlashCopy has been supported for years yet analyzing the workload relating to this ser...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Safer config online

BTMU has requested that we provide a new config online command that does all of the following automatically. BTMU hope that this new function will be included in z/OS2.1 or later.This request was discussed between zPE Makiyo Suzuki and z/OS IOS De...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 10 Future consideration

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