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Provide option for dubbed processes to inherit environment from init process

Please provide options - a global default in BPXPRMxx and user level option in user's OMVS segment for a "blind dubbed" process to inherit its environment from the "init" process (PID 1). Currently, an address space that is not started by USS Logo...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

DFDSS to define new target GDG base and use relative generations for target GDS's.

DFDSS has the ability to process input Generation Data Sets via relative generation numbers, but cannot create new target generations using the relative generation (+n). It also cannot define target GDG's as part of a COPY or RESTORE operation.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

TCPIP Sysplex Ditributor SERVERWLM low weights management

We have a large database ( 6 DB2 members, more than 10000 DB2 transactions per second) where DDF TCP traffic is balanced with VIPA SERVERWLM algorithm. In normal condition WLM weights are high enough to spread new sockets in a balanced way. When t...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

RACF control to allow or disallow copying of data from an encrypted dataset to an unencrypted dataset

Today if a person has access to a key label there are no controls in place to limit their ability to copy an encrypted dataset to a dataset with no DFP segment in it's RACF dataset profile. When this is the case the dataset is unencrypted when wri...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA for legacy policies

When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

FS command in SDSF should show ZFS flags like RW,RS,NE,NC,CO ...

FS commands shos statistics about zFS file systems, however it does not show the flags that can be displayed by zfsadm fsinfo '*'
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF WLM View Access for staff members who can't update WLM

Please update z/OSMF to allow users who are not allowed to update WLM access to view WLM.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Allow filters on SDSF REXX interface when reading Operlog

Currently the ISFFILTER variable is only supported on tabular displays but not when using the REXX SDSF ISFLOG READ TYPE(OPERLOG) interface. It would be useful to be able to filter the Operlog on say SYSNAME or MSGID using the REXX interface given...
9 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

SMP/E Commands with CHECK should have their own RACF Resource

SMP/E utilizes the RACF profiles for the various commands such as APPLY, ACCEPT, RESTORE. These commands provide a CHECK option which does NOT update any libraries but simply checks to see if everything is correct to proceed with the actual updati...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Health check MSGBASED

On a GDPS Metro installation there is a GDPS health checker called GDPS_CHECK_XCF that cheks for the XCF CFRM MSGBASED protocol. It raises a high priority alert whenever the LPAR that does the MSGBASED role is a KP system. However when the situati...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Future consideration

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