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Add an additional parameter for CBRUXSAE (OAM Security exit) to get the Db2 SSID or name of OAM system

Currently, we've the requirement to setup a Multiple-OAM Environment. This have to be done for some application restore tests. Currently, our OAM Security exit checks RACF for the access rights to the collections (the RACF ressources are the colle...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Planned for future release

System Logger offload monitoring should create a diagnostic dump upon detection of an offload delay.

System Logger offload monitoring provides notification of delays in log stream offload processing with the goal of allowing an installation to take action to prevent log streams filling to capacity, which would result in the failure of IXGWRITE re...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

Implement -h (human readable) option for file related commands (ls, df, du ..)

hi there, since we don't get the luxury of GNU Tools on z/OS USS i would at least expect an option for human readable output for the basic file related commands (ls, df, du ..). this is something *NIX distributions got decades ago, why not USS? Tr...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

ISPF Edit highlighting for R

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for the R language.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

ISPF Edit highlighting for ACS routines

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for ACS routines.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

Include the dataset name in the IGW859I message text

The Itau bank and IBM has a project to activate the DFSMStvs product to run on the GRBE (Itaú OLTP application) to support the online workload.So, it is very important to us to have an improvement for the message IGW859I, today this message doesn'...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 5 Planned for future release

RMF Spreadsheet Reporter: remove dependency on RepIntStr for RepTrdStr to obtain updated CF data

With the current design of the 'RepTrdStr' tab, users have no idea on why CF data is missing or CF structures not appear in the available list if they do not first use the 'RepIntStr' to access the data. It will be helpful to make this implicit fo...
4 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Planned for future release

Add a last login timestamp attribute for z/OS LDAP.

The z/OS LDAP server would be greatly enhanced by including a password policy operational attribute called pwdLastLogin which contains a dated timestamp of the last time an entry has logged in to the server.
12 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

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