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Core Infrastructure

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VLF SMF 41 SUBTYPE 3 - MISSING COFPURGE statistics

Currently VLF statistics tracks ADD, DELETES, TRIM activity. One of the most important activity in terms of VLF CPU usage is the PURGE activity (COFPURGE). SMF 41 should track also COFPURGE. The purge activity consumes when the cache has many entr...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF REST API for spawning UNIX shells, executing commands

Users of z/OS UNIX who are already leveraging z/OSMF REST APIs currently have two options when trying to remotely interface with z/OS UNIX: Avoid z/OSMF entirely and use SSH. This has a number of downsides, including re-authentication concerns, in...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Create a report to show the unused defaults table entries

If a customer has a large number of VRS definitions he can use the VRSEL report to identify "Unused VRS Definitions" at the end of the report. I have successfully converted a customer with approximate 13.0000 RDS definitions to approximate 13.000 ...
11 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Submitted

Autobackup for HSM USS files

This functionality to allow the USS files under a file system to be automatically backed when the autobackup for the SMS management class is setup.
11 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Submitted

dsfs/sysout should use stepname.procstepname.ddname

Currently /dsfs/sysout/ ... uses stepname.ddname.something - that can be misleading as multiple steps can use the same ddname - adding the procstepname so it is stepname.procstepname.ddname.something would provide additional granularity and clarity.
2 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - signature failure

When using RECSIGN and ARECSIGN to sign the records and validate them afterwards and there is an error, it is not clear which of the two signatures failed. However, this is the essential/crucial point of the dual signature. I have to know if the c...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - provided tokens

Currently when two tokens are provided for the validation whereas one is not valid, IFASMFDP only issues:VALIDATION FAILED: RECORDED AND SUPPLIED CRYPTO OPTIONS DO NOT MATCHbut the program would know if the SGINVALIDATE or the ASIGNVALIDATE token ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - in regards of inconsistent records

When running a Validation report for a full day and message IFA742I is issued it only tells me:VALIDATION FAILED: INCONSISTENT RECORDS - RECORDS DO NOT MATCH EXPECTED TIMES However, the day has 24h hours, split into 15min SMF interval leading to 9...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Functionality already exists

Simple documented configuration of passphrase complexity rules

I am familiar with IRRPHREX option. However, I would like a simpler option that is managed and displayed in SETROPTS. I don't need extensive customizability, I really only need to enforce minimum length of 15 rather than 9. I can do it with IRRPHR...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Allow the use of EKMF to create/store GDK keys

We use EKMF exclusively to manage the content of our CKDS, as a policy choice. I have been getting push back from our Key management team to allow us to use the current CDA setup for generating and storing keys. It would be helpful if CDA allowed ...
22 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

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