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Core Infrastructure

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DFSMS does NOT populate S42AMZRB and S42AMZWB

DFSMS does NOT populate S42AMZRB and S42AMZWB in SMF_42 subtype 6 record in our SMF data That is the reason why TDS displays them as 0.0. This is NOT a TDS error.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

Provide NOTERMUACC Functionality Equivalent for SERVAUTH

Please look to provide a functional equivalent of the NOTERMUACC Parameter on UserIDs/Groups for the SERVAUTH class, specifically NETACCESS in particular. This could potentially be achieved by expanding the NOTERMUACC Parameter to cover SERVAUTH c...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

When an enclave is quiesced from the ENC panel, document in the syslog what tasks and parent tasks are quiesced.

Today, if you quiesce an enclave, there is no auditing information injected into the syslog as to the tasks being quiesced. More importantly, it's parent task is not documented in the syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

Option to report silent exception handling in LE

During some performance analysis we discovered in CICS trace a huge amount of S0CA - decimal overflow - interrupts caught and recovered by Language Environment. These were caused by a simple ADD statement in a cobol program which runs in an ILC en...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Allow MSGCLASS to be overriden

The message class for z/OS Unix is class A. This is a print class for us and listings are being printed we don't want to print. From my experience Class A is a common print class.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

Inventory Export of Software Instances (Software Management) for ShopZ

Currently I have to export an inventory of SMPE/e Zone by a GIMXSID job, then download it to my workstation and then upload it into shopZ. This would be quicker if there would be a possibility to get this by html download directly from z/OSMF Soft...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

avoid WTOR ICH304D like WTOR ICH302D with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.

Following APAR OA63091 (with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.) issue of WTOR ICH302D "ICH302D REPLY Y TO ALLOW ANOTHER ATTEMPT OR N TO REVOKE USERID userid." can be avoided. I propose to extend this behav...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Request for change to Management of PKCS11 tokens ICSF panel

We are trying to setup on a z/OS LPAR a client-server platform (e.g. Pcomm client to TN3270 server or browser to HTTP server) fully compliant with FIPS 140-2 requirements. To accomplish this task, all TCP/IP AT-TLS policies, security levels and ci...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Ensure ASCBEJST, ASCBSRBT are cleared after last job step.

This will keep residual values from being put into SMF 30.4 and 30.5 records.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

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