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Core Infrastructure

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Facility class for ICKDSF miss option adding a generic volume list

In our shop only storage guys are allowed to initialize a volume. Meaning having required access to facility class STGADMIN.ICK.INIT/REFORMAT/etc. So whenever a sysprog want to reformat or init a specific named range of volumes named ie ABC%%% the...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 2 Future consideration

It will be useful, the standard PERMIT command syntax include a WHEN clause for time-based conditions.

Use Case 1: Restricting Access During Business Hours Scenario 1: A company wants to restrict certain administrative commands during business hours to prevent unauthorized changes while employees are working. Example: PERMIT EZB.INITSTACK.SYSA.TCPI...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

JES2 PERFDATA should be written as SMF records for improved usability

JES2 currently provides the results of collected performance statistics in the output of the $D PERFDATA command in many lines of $HASP660 sent to the console and consumable via review of syslog/operlog. The command provides several subscripts, $D...
9 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Add include option to DSFS

There is only one valid value for HLQ_MODE and that is EXCLUDE. To enable controlled use of DSFS in production, HLQ_MODE=EXCLUDE is insufficient. What sense does the parameter make if there is only one permissible value, namely EXCLUDE? How would ...
6 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Delete elements like channel , control-unit , unit in IODF with HCD batch

With PGM=CBDMGHCP,PARM='MIGR,........' we can add or update elements but not to delete elements. It would be fine to be able to delete elements in batch before to do MIGRATE in batch. We have messages : CBDA563I SPACE EXHAUSTED IN WORK IODF NSYSTK...
4 months ago in z/OS / HCD 4 Future consideration

FTP server: use of UID(0)

The z/OS Communications server documentation states FTP Server has security requirements specified as needing UID(0). However, I have found (running on a zPDT) that the FTP server runs sucessfully without UID(0).I have observed other sites running...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF NCA Automatically detect the z/OS release level of a system image

We need z/OSMF NCA to automatically detect the z/OS release level of a system image. At the moment this parameter has to be set manually on the main "Systems" tab (select properties on a System Image (LPAR).
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance IFASMFDP to use efficient buffering to significantly reduce job elapsed time

All users would benefit in their SMF daily jobstreams by being able to quickly and efficiently process the Hundreds of Millions of records in a short time span.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

IMPROVED METHOD TO REMOVE PATHS

We did the test to verify the effect of RECOVERY PATH_SCOPE=CU. The test case of one path busy got the expected result. 2-3 seconds after 'VARY ONLINE', the path of all devices under the same CU got offline. However, the two paths busy case did no...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

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...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

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