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Core Infrastructure

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RRSF & RACF LAST-ACCESS field

In our case we have 2 DB racf connected By RRSF.We have the same userids defined in both RACF database.Until some months ago if one userid loggin-on in one database without loggin in the second one, the Last-access field was updated. So the first ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

ISPF MEMLIST - Support DATASET option

The ISPF MEMLIST service is a easy way to invoke the enhanced member list. However it requires a LMMINIT before using. It would be easier to use if it also supported the DATASET parameter
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Improve CONFIGxx PARMLIB member processing for PPRC environments

Background: Currently CONFIGxx members are maintained manually by FI for every system in the sysplex with names CONFIG&SYSCLONE. These members contain desired states for 1. Storage and CPU's that are to be online. 2. Channel paths that should ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

FACILITY STGADMIN for IDCAMS VERIFY

Title “STGADMIN.IDC profile for IDCAMS VERIFY” Target Group: DFSMS & RACFRequest: Addition to RACF FACILITY CLASS CheckingResource Name (proposed): STGADMIN.IDC.VERIFY.DATASETPurpose: To avoid the need for ALTER access to the DS. Sample JCL th...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Remove appending a number to <8 character USS forked jobnames

For jobnames that are <8 characters, when the parent process forks a new process the new processes jobname becomes the parent jobname with a number from 1-9 appended. If the jobname is 8 characters long then the child processes jobnames are equ...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Enhance Capacity Provisioning Manager to better handle 10 second and lower RMF Intervals

CPOSERV is unable to complete its observation cycle while monitoring multiple systems/sysplexes where some of those sysplex are set with an RMFIII MINTIME of 10 seconds or lower. There is a business requirement to have the RMF MINTIME set at 10 se...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 1 Future consideration

Intermittent FCNOCOPY FCTOPPRCP(PRESMIRREQ) Failures with ADR935W

IBM requested that this RFE be defined with a Product/Component of Preserve Mirror/5675DF117.I was unable to select these through the submit process so I have included the note above to ensure this request gets properly assigned. We are a 4-site G...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Allow suppression of messages to JOBLOG in MPFLSTxx PARMLIB members

Currently we have a number of messages which we don't want to suppress but we don't want to be visible in the JOBLOG as they can cause clutter. We stop these messages going to JOBLOG by using an MPF exit and coding the following: OI CTXTERF3,CTXTE...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Future consideration

Auto-RACLIST specific general resource classes

It would be nice if RACF would auto-RACLIST specific general resource classes if they were active and RACLIST required.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced ICSF Query Facility to display cryptographic hardware segment information

We would like an enhanced CSFIQF ICSF query that would provide cryptographic segment 1-3 configuration detail similar to that provided within the HMC displays. (an example of the HMC segment information we would like to see as part of an CSFIQF fu...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Future consideration

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