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Core Infrastructure

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Keep message IKJ56474I USERID OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR NOT AUTHORIZED to be held on the screen

When logging into TSO through TN3270, if the user ID or password is entered incorrectly, message 'IKJ56474I USERID OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR NOT AUTHORIZED' briefly appears on the screen before disappearing after a few seconds. Our company audit...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

Allow LDAP server admins to be able to customize SQL queries for LDAP operations.

Due to the wide range of SQL functionality and DB2 database implementations it's possible that certain SQL queries generated by the LDAP server are not optimized for some DB2 databases, a mechanism to allow LDAP admins to customize queries can gre...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

zERT Analyzer - Enhance Query Builder Capabilities

While using the query builder in zERT it does not offer the ability to filter for either 'User ID' or 'Job Name' even those values are reported in the result set. It would be of great benefit if the query would allow to filter already on those two...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

When using IFASMFDL for extracting SMF-data, job might end with RC=08-0804 if no data is in the log stream

See also case TS017633432. In brief: we are writing SMF data to logstreams (As recommended by IBM). We are having different LogStreams in order to pre-select the SMF-records. On Log-Stream is for DB2-SMF records in which we collect records 100:102...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Under review

Basic/Large Format Dataset Encryption min LRECL and Blocksize option

Allow customers the option of bypassing encryption of basic/large format datasets if they do not meet the minimum LRECL requirements
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer must support SMF 119(11)

Currently zOSMF Network Analyzer does only support analyzing the zERT Discovery Records from SMF 119(12). However with the introduction of zERT Policy enforcement there must be the option to analyze the SMF 119(11) records too. It makes not sense ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Include REVOKE in FACILITY password reset authorities

Enhance the authority associated with FACILITY resource IRR.PASSWORD.RESET and those prefixed IRR.PWRESET to allow users to REVOKE an ID within the existing scope of authority of these resources. These FACILITY resources allow users to RESUME and ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Make diagnosing IXC440E easier.

when IXC440E message is received the documentation IXC440E - IBM Documentation is complicated. There are multiple displays required to capture required data: Issue DISPLAY XCF commands to get more information about the stalled group members. Use D...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

JCL IF statement support for system symbols

If the JCL IF statement supports system symbols, the same JCL could be submitted on multiple systems/LPARs without modification, resulting in a different set of steps being executed based on the value of a system symbol. e.g. The following step wo...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Backup for UNIX-Files

DFSMShsm in FILE-Mode (for UNIX-Files) should support automatic backup like CLASSIC-Mode. SETSYS INUSE should also be considered because files are often in use.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration