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Core Infrastructure

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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

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

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

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

CSSMTP text line too long in attached file

CSSMTP reject a mail with message "text line too long". the rejected mail has an attached file with a LRECL 1032 hence the error since CSSMTP enforce RFC2822 which limit the line length to 998 characters plus CRLF. There was not this problem with ...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU consumption for cipher suites including DH

We call in our CICS applications external webservices and external http requests, which are hosted at external Partners, means there is a http conversation between CICS and an external Partner, in which CICS has the role Client. For security reaso...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / SSL 3 Future 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

ISPF Copy, Compare, Search do not support Unix files

ISPF was made Unix aware a few releases back, but functions like ISPF 3.3 copy, ISPF 3.12 and 3.13 SuperC, and 3.14 and 3.15 search were not made Unix aware. These functions should be modified to support Unix filenames.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

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