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Core Infrastructure

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Tape temp dataset change request

The management class ACS routine is not driven for tape temp datasets, therefore the MC is not being passed to the TS7700 and uses the default.MC.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

v sms,sg(*),space

v sms,sg(sgtoto),space is supportedIt would be fine that :v sms,sg(*),spaceorv sms,sg(sg*),spaceorv sms,sg(all),spacewill be supported
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

zERT Sessions Exclusion

Provide ability for zERT to exclude loopback to loopback address sessions.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Requesting timestamp to be 'restored' to original for sym links when tar or pax is used to 'unzip' an archive file.

Hello USS Development team, As we prepare to migrate HFS user file systems to zFS I am testing back out scenarios and have observed that both the IBM provided migration utility (BPXWH2Z) and back out options I have tested (tar and pax to copy new ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

Support insecure mode in the Web Enablement Toolkit for SSL connections

The curl program provides insecure mode that bypasses verification of certificates during an SSL connection and allows the connection to proceed. This is not ideal in a production environment but very useful during application development when sel...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Prioritization of mount tasks in DFRMM.

Prioritization of mount tasks in DFRMM. RMM should give mount tasks a higher priority then other tasks like catalog request tasks.In the moment there is no prioritization of tasks and all tasks are queued.RMM should interrupted other tasks and ful...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

The clock() function that determines process time on z/OS needs to be increased or reset to zero after it reaches max value

We have a PMR 29022,082,000 opened with IBM Integration Bus V10 support about SMF CPU time not reporting correctly for some message flows. L3 found that the clock () function they were using to calculate processor time hit max value so they could ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Preserve JESJCLIN & SYSIN over NJE / OFFLOAD / SECERROR

JES2 would preserve the special datasets JESJCLIN and the generated for SYSIN DD */DATA, when Jobs travel through NJE, OFFLOAD or there are security problems.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

NFS man pages missing

The following NFS man pages missing: crnl2nl, mvslogin, mvslogout, mvs2os2, nfsstat, nl2crnl, os22mvs, showattr, showmount
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Not under consideration

Populate STORGRP ACS variable during Class Transition

When doing a DFHSM Class Transition, environment SPMGCLTR, supply the Storage Group that the dataset currently resides in to the ACS logic most likely in the &STORGRP variable
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

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