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Core Infrastructure

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Having DAA and SAA be aware of read-only clusters.

Customer's environment: 4_way HYDRA GRID.Customer has multiple composite libraries tied to the same storage group. So, SMS does balanced distribution of write tape I/O between those composite librarys into the same SMS storage group. The point her...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

&SUBSTR Pseudovariable

Changing the value of a variable in the middle of a string could be improved by allowing the use of &SUBSTR as a pseudovariable like can be done in PL/I. SET &OLDVAR = &STR(THIS RUN IS A LIVE RUN) So instead of using:&NEWVAR = &...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

z/OS UNIX - Improvements to mv Command

Regarding the z/OS UNIX mv command ... We believe the mv command should always move a file asis, i.e. it should not only move the file as regards to name, content and size, but also retain all of its attributes, including security attributes. Th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Future consideration

Logger limit of 200 Dataspaces

We have recently hit the 200 Dataspace limit of the IXGLOGR address space which resulted in message DFHLG0777 Return code 867. The problem occurred approximately 5-7 times a day causing some customer transactions to time out. It took close to 3 we...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Future consideration

Enable PASSTICKET support for the FTP Client

There needs to be an option added to the FTP Client to enable the use of PASSTICKET as an authentication metric. Currently the only options that can be used with FTP Client is Password/MFA or X509 Certificate logon. The issue with password logon i...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Add Ability to Honor Password History to ALU PASSWORD Command

Performing an ALTUSER command allows users to reset their password to one of their historic passwords. Please enhance the command with an option to honor the history or issue a warning when there is a collision with a password in the history.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Provide a JES2 command to display the number of lines an STC has written and at what point it will abend

This concerns tasks that are not cycle more than a few times a year. When a started task is not cycled often, it can lead to S722 abends due to the amount of lines written. The JCT holds the line count. Even when SPIN is specified, it does not dec...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Enhance RACF so that ALTUSER UserID OWNER is a noop if the OWNER is already set

Please enhance RACF so that if someone were to issue:ALTUSER BRUCE OWNER(MARKN) and also if UserID BRUCE already has an OWNER of MARKN then an ICH message is issued that nothing has been modified instead of just modifying the owner again.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide ability to list all z/OSMF Workflow Definitions

z/OSMF Workflow Definitions must be specified when creating a Workflow instance. However the user must know the name and location of the file that contains the Workflow Definition. It would be FAR easier to use Workflows if the Workflow Editor 'ca...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS TSO - Add LOGLINE option to IKJTSOxx LOGON setting

In zOS TSO PARMLIB member IKJTSOxx, add an option to replace macro IKJTSO's LOGLINE setting, similar to how APAR OA57937 did for its LOGTIME setting. If users want to change the default MODGEN(IKJTSO) values for LOGTIME/LOGLINE, they would assemb...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

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