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Need to add Enable/Disable field for where used check on reusable rules

Due to the number of stacks that we have in the environment we use a lot of reusable rules. We use the "Show Were Used" to verify where are rules are installed however this is missing a crucial piece of information, if the rule is enabled or disab...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SMF type80 subtype 02 need report underlying resource when access defaults to default resource

While trying to track down the resource name associated with a DFRMM facility profile violation, we only see a default resource name STGADMIN.EDG.MASTER when there is actually an underlying more-specfic resource being requested. We have all DFRMM ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 3 Not under consideration

Provide DFHSM Class Transitioning by # of GDG's on Primary

Currently, support exists only to migrate based on # of GDG's on Primary. Would alternatively like to class transition instead of migrate.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

Increae maxlinesize for diff and patch

diff and patch have a line size limit of 1024 characters. This is small for today's computing environment. It should be increased to a much larher value.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Improvements for the PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION health check

The PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION validly detects when an address space is projected to run out of private storage within x hours which triggers an HZS0003E. However, when the usage floats around the threshold between the medium and high threshol...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Planned for future release

Add Byte Count Delemiter in Displays

Please add a TCPIP Profile Parameter to insert an optional Delemiter Character (for example DOT) in Netstat and Interface Displays for a better reading. Because Byte/Packet Counters are growing during the runtime, it is hard to read the Informatio...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SMP/E BPX.SUPERUSER alternative

The requirement for BPX.SUPERUSER access to install and maintain products with HFS parts is becoming a big problem and some sort of alternative that restricts the use to SMP/E purposes only or somethning like that is needed.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Extend SERVAUTH SAF Name Length Beyond 8 Characters

Please look to extend SAF names beyond 8 characters in the SERVAUTH class.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

HSM should verify if another function needs a tape migration if it is migrating a large dataset.

Customer have impact with a production job that was waiting for a recall data set. It took a long time because HSM was migrating a large dataset and the tape needed was part of the connect set.HSM verifies if another function needs the tape migrat...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

Request to have a way to change HLQ of ABARS ARECOVER VERIFY CONFLICTdataset

Is it possible for the ARECOVER command option VERIFY to have a sub-option to specify a different HLQ than the default 'id' which is linked to the authorized user ID for DFSMShsm.On our system 'id.agname.CONFLICT.Dyyddd.Thhmmss' is always HSM.agna...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

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