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Core Infrastructure

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Allocation should not retry allocating devices that still have tapes mounted on them

We experienced a large number of microcode issues during the unloads of our VTS drives. The result was a tape drive that z/OS thought was unloaded but actually had a tape mounted from the VTS's perspective. Because z/OS and the VTS are 'out of syn...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 2 Not under consideration

ADRDSSU Enhancement

ADRDSSU fails to reinitialize a space efficient flash copy volume if the volume UCB shows a count greater than zero. This leaves the volume online without a VTOC and subject to I/O errors if referenced. When using the FCWD option with ADRDSSU, a R...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

zERT Report Export

Under zERT Report panel, provide the ability to export the CSV file directly to either a desktop location (via http or ftp), or to the current z/OS location. A progress monitor would also be helpful during the export operation.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Need a description field for connection rules in NCA

When creating IPSEC or ATTLS rules there is no free form area of us to add information in to put in information for the rule and the title is a limited set of characters.The requirement maps give us some of that but really we need this at the LPAR...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OS - WTO/WTOR add a No-Manipulate Parameter

Hello IBM, It is a critical requirement for products such as GDPS, that messages are seen by the product. This involves a significant amount of expertise and time to check z/OS, NetView and SA components to ensure that certain messages are not man...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

PKI Exit for SCEP Requests

Implement a PKI EXIT function on pre-processing operations in pkiclient.exe before call of SCEPREQ, to turn possible customizations on SCEP Requests.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Future consideration

Add IKEv2 Message Fragmentation support to IKED

Add support for IKEv2 Message Fragmentation to IKED as described in RFC 7383
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Automount and RACF FSACCESS

When we use automount, where the policy creates a new zfs for a userid, in conjunction with RACF FSACCESS, "phantom" directories are created. It would seem more sensible that automount honours FSACCESS before the dataset is created.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Allow rexx program to insert file tailoring output lines

File tailoring skeletons allow imbedded rexx programs through the use of )REXX and )ENDREXX tags. I would like for those rexx programs to be able to insert new lines of output to the ISPFILE output, without leaving the rexx program. The rexx progr...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Expand CFRM structure limit beyond 2048

I would like to see the CFRM policy structure limit increased beyond 2048, possibly 3072. I am pushing the 2048 limit currently.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Planned for future release

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