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Program control and system symbols

Hello Our colleagues make intensive use of system symbols when they install new softwareor do some maintenance. They can use it also for APF libraries and so on. Now we are struggling when we want make use of system symbols for program controlled ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Better diagnosis of JES2 checkpoint performance issues

Following a recent incident triggered by an application change which caused 130'000 unintended emails to be sent out via a trusted mail server (CSMTP) instead of the usual 4'000, this high amount slowed down JES2 significantly and led to our batch...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Option(s) to prevent uncontrolled execution of data stack elements as commands.

When command stacking is used between programs that leave data in the REXX stack, the data is executed as TSO commands. This can lead to strange error messages, damaged data, deleted datasets, unintended consequences, security exposures, malware i...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

RRSF TCPIP stack affinity

We use RRSF on LPARs with multiple TCPIP stacks. Currently there is no way to set stack affinity so that RACF only binds to a particular stack. Without stack affinity, outbound RRSF connections initiated from a system with multiple TCPIP stacks ma...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

Set a Preference List for Monitoring System of a Coupling Facility

We think it is important to set which system will be responsable for monitoring full threshold of a specificCoupling Facility. In environments with GDPS, Ksys should have no product running unless GDPS own, on the recommendationthe GDPS, to not ha...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

QUERY ACTIVE(TCBADDRESS) output ARC0162I VOL= parm to have current tape being processed than (or) in addition to the first tape

When fuctions such as Data Set RECOVER is in progress for a very long time spanning hours for huge files, the output from QUERY ACTIVE(TCBADDRESS) currently lists the VOLUME=vvvvvv parm with the first HSM backup tape, even after it is done with th...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

$HASP1551 LIST Messaging for HTTP_NOTIFY

When JOBDEF is coded with HTTP_NOTIFY=DISABLED and a z/OSMF request specifies X-IBM-Notification-URL, JES2 issues message $HASP1551 even though notification will not be possible. $HASP1551 LIST -- Send HTTP notification when job is READY $HASP1551...
4 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Programmatically accessible output

Currently system programmers may need to check health check reports from multiple systems. Providing the output in a format such as JSON would allow them to consolidate and dashboard on the status of multiple systems much more easily.
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Planned for future release

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

HCD device ADD LIKE enhancement

Currently the ADD LIKE function for devices functions differently for 3390B devices than 3390D devices. Specifically in the case where you ADD LIKE a 3390B intending for it to retain the address but in a new CU that you intend to connect to a diff...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / HCD 4 Future consideration

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