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Prevention of message lost 'GEO150I'

This request is to eliminate the problem that the user has encountered described in PMR=73176, APAR=OA55044. After re-sync of XRC, system message GEO150I was sometimes missing if there were no updates or small number of updates on the XRC. In this...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 2 Not under consideration

Automatic RACF SWITCH database command if a logical error occurs

The RACF should identify a severe logical error in your database and make the automatic switch database, as happens the switch automatically when the an I/O error occurs. The switch database can be to the backup database or another.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Expanded support allowing symbol substitution inside quoted fields.

Requesting the ability to code system and/or JCL symbols inside a quoted field and have their values substituted. Today this is not possible. Consider the following scenario://EXPORT EXPORT SYMLIST=* //TEST SET DIR='/part1/part2/part3/&SYSCLON...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Future consideration

When using IDCAMS with a model statement, allow for the use of keylabel(NONE) to not copy the model datasets encryption key. This allows for the dataset attributes to be copied without requiring access to an encryption key.

This would allow application developers who need to create 'test' datasets and want to use production dataset attributes. They don't want to access the data, just attributes.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Add job submitter information to SMF Type 26 record (Purge)

(this may be a duplicate - I thought I submitted this but cannot find it)Currently the type 26 job purge record contains the user ID of the job submitter but this is not sufficient for audit purposes - because of ID propagation the ID alone does n...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Allow user to set their first password phrase when the correct password is supplied

We would like all our mainframe users to have passwords longer than 8 characters, so we are now looking into getting users to use password phrase instead of password. However RACF currently only allows RACF administrators (or authorized personnel)...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Continue to GIM69207S or similar message til JAVA message text is complete

Keep issuing GIM69207S or similar message until you provide all the text of the underlying message. In this case, the rest of the java message text might only take one or two additional GIM69207S. No fancy continuation notice in the extra messages...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Change IDCAMS Diagnose so it can process large numbers of catalog records

IDCAMS Diagnose is currently limited in the amount of entries it can process. It should be modified to process very large numbers of catalog entries as catalogs can now exceed the 4GB limit and access as Extended Attribute datasets. Diagnose curre...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Planned for future release

Dataset extensions on EAV volumes limited

When moving to EAV volumes it means fewer volumes in the STORGRP available for dataset volume extensions. This can result in space failures based on original JCL allocations that worked fine with smaller and more volumes in the STORGRP, because th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Not under consideration

Remove DASDVOL call from DFDSS logical dataset dump

When running a DFDSS logcal dataset dump of a SMS managed volume, DFDSS is making an unnecessary call to the RACF DASDVOL facility class. Please review the above Service Request for the details. We are attempting to delete the DASDVOL facility cla...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

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