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Enhanced Detection of Sysplex Distributor Traffic Delivery Failures

Problem Statement A recent incident exposed a gap in the visibility and workload management capabilities of the Sysplex Distributor. Traffic was successfully directed to the distributor; however, due to an internal distribution issue, packets were...
16 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server Submitted

Could you add a new command ZCX to show zcx instances and their characteristics (Memory,@ip, level, ...)

today we issue these commands to get statistics for our ZCX : F ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,CONFIGF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKVERF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,NETF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,VERSIONF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,PCIE
17 days ago in z/OS / SDSF Functionality already exists

DFSMSrmm should honor generic RACF profiles during internal authorization checks

DFSMSrmm performs internal RACROUTE REQUEST=AUTH checks for concrete data set names but does not specify RACFIND=YES or enable generic profile matching. As a result, applicable generic RACF profiles are ignored and misleading ICH408I RESOURCE NOT ...
17 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM Submitted

PROCLIB protection in JES2

Hello, Is it possible to enforce the PROCLIB protection witin JES2 ? Today if we would like to force it, we must update the PPT to override DSI for HASPJES20 program. An option in JES2PARM will be appreciated for this functionnality. As we see a l...
19 days ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

OAM resiliency enhancement

We're using OAM object support out of CICS and by using the new OAM REST API. We would love to see some resiliency enhancements regarding OAM that would solve some possible "outages" of applications calling OAM in situations when we may face issue...
22 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

Would like LDAP to be able to List RACF dataset profiles using LISTDSD (LD), I am trying to list Dataset access on a Web User interface (UI).

LDAP is able today to list USER, Groups and General Resources, but is not able to List Dataset information.
23 days ago in z/OS / LDAP Functionality already exists

Better structure and promotion of IBM Z learning resources for self-learners

I'm learning mainframe technologies independently (COBOL, JCL, CICS, Db2 for z/OS) and one of the biggest challenges when starting out was figuring out where to actually begin. There are so many different resources scattered across different platf...
25 days ago in z/OS / Documentation Submitted

Ability to run deployment, reconfiguration and upgrades of ZCX automated

The workflows today have a manual step so automation is not possible. If we have the possibility to add and run the workflows fully automated we would save time and also get better quality. This would also fix the error when the user needs to own ...
29 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) Submitted

Add option to iShell to view a file using ISPF view

Using ISPF view is handy since it allows for use of edit commands (such as CUT), macros,  and color hiliting.  It prevents accidental changes which an Edit might do.   The existing "V" option currently will do a browse with fixed le...
30 days ago in z/OS / ISPF Submitted

ZOSMF - Add a DEFAULT KEYRING as a Selectable/Default Option in z/OSMF Signature Verification Keyring

Currently, the Signature verification keyring field in z/OSMF requires users to manually enter the keyring name when accessing z/OSMF for the first time on a new system. For example, in our environment, we use a standard keyring such as STCUSER/CV...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

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