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Warning message when the LSA size becomes critical (near hardware MTU size)

IBM Health Checker or OMPROUTE should issue a warning message when the size of the LSAs become critical (near full according to the size of the hardware interface MTUs).The message should be issued before any fragmentation for the Link State Updat...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

AT-TLS support for limiting which client certificates that are allowed to use an specific IP port

We need to be able to use AT-TLS with client and server verification of certificates. We need to be able to limit which client certificates we allow to connect and use this IP port so that not all certificates from a CA in our truststore (keyring)...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Allow ML2 parameter for the MIGRATE SG and MIGRATE VOLUME parameters.

Customers may encounter a situation where their HSM ML1 volumes have filled and yet they still need more space in the storage groups for production data. Customers can use the MIGRATE SG command or the MIGRATE VOLUME command. However, the ML2 subp...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

VSAM Verify to repair control blocks

If VSAM open feedback indicates improperly closed VSAM, we would like to have VSAM open to implicitly drive VSAM Verify one time and re-drive the open request. This is to be done in a fashion that application requesting OPEN is successful in the c...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Include IRRPRMXX parms in RVARY LIST output

Request to update the RVARY LIST command's output to include all possible parameters which could be specified in the PARMLIB(IRRPRMxx) RACF data set name table member. Currently, parms such as BUFFERS, UPDATEBACKUP are not in the output; thus user...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

API/ Plugin to be used for data transferring to vendors- using zOSMF FTP servers definition

Create an API or plugin to be used to transfer data to vendors. we already have all vendors defined on zosmf FTP server definitions I know incident log has this features, including adding any dataset to an existing incident log entry, but we´re no...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Real time SMF need support high level language APIs (Restful, Java, Phython, etc, priority from high to low)

Hope to provide higher level language APIs (Restful, Java, Phython, priority from high to low) support to get real time SMF.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

An easy to use pre-installation CFSizer

This is a really old request for having an easy to use pre-installation CFSizer. I'm sure others have made the same request. A search in RFE reveils sort of same requests - but for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to see the full request.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Enhance RACF type 80 Access Records to always record the module name if WHEN(PROGRAM) grants access

In the current type 80, I do not see a field to indicate the name of the module that grants the access if a conditional permit of WHEN(PROGRAM) grants access. Please enhance the type 80 access records to record the module name for success, failure...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Improve HSM ML1 migration volume selection by considering fragmentation

When HSM attempts to migrate a data set to an ML1 volume, it only considers free space available on the volume. Unfortunately, in an environment with large volume sizes (like 1TB EAV's), there can be a lot of free space available on a volume, but ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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