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Core Infrastructure

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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

RACF Profile list for APF authorized libraries

Utility that will check who has access (and what levels) to the APF libraries. Should list profiles that control the access as wellSensitive access HC doesn't go to the Access level (just read or update).
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 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

WLM initiator

WLM initiator address space will be dropped after several minutes inactive. Customer want to control the WLM initiator dropping processing, such as there is a parameter we can set to control how many minutes the WLM initiator will be dropped, or e...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Not under consideration

Update Security Configuration Assistant Plug-In to allow ability to permanently ignore some failures.

If a particular failure will never be changed, this would allow for a "clean" report. This would allow administrators to focus on important failures. A method should also be supplied to examine all excluded failures in case the situation changes.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance the HELP Panels in ISMF for OBJECTS

When setting up OAM Objects in ISMF for the first time, I found the HELP panels lacking in detail. They only provide a brief description that uses the name GROUP00. After setting up OAM and working with it for a few weeks, I was able to see that G...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Not under consideration

UPD XVFB to have parameter to change /tmp file location

Currently XVFB creates and manipulates certain files under different conditions which it places in /tmp. It would be helpful to have a parameter that could be passed to XVFB upon startup to direct where to place these files currently written to /t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 3 Planned for future release

Performance improvement for FTPs MVSPUT

When the FTP subcommand MVSPUT (introduced with z/os v2r1) is used then for each member transmitted a new data connection is established. For a non-encrypted connection, this is no problem, but for an encrypted connection each of those data connec...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Enhancement for Encryption Facility Product

Problem when using the command rP Command during Encryption Check PMR 67534 661 706, all details is descripbed in the PMR
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under 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