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Core Infrastructure

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Make CEETBCK statement_id parameter optional for performance reasons

In order to populate the statement_id parameter, CEETBCK needs to invoke the debug infrastructure, which can present considerable overhead if CEETBCK is frequently used ie. in non-error contexts. Passing a null pointer (OMITTED in the case of COBO...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration

New Security Type for HTTP and OCSP in System SSL

With enabled Certificate revocation status checking in ATTLS, system SLL offers 3 different security types for HTTP and OSCP (RevocationSecurityLevel = Low, Medium or High) LowCertificate validation does not fail if the OCSP responder or HTTP serv...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

Warning about problems during code page conversion while uploading and downloading text data

Product: Zowe CLI, VS Code Extension for Zowe Actor: User editing data from z/OS datasets, members, or UNIX files on a workstation and using a different encoding than IBM-1047 on the mainframe (e.g. IBM-870, IBM-037, IBM-273...) in the text mode P...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

FCIC JOB takes long time with msg IGD17291I.

When the client tries to take DB2 image copy by a use of FlashCopy, it takes very long time with msg IGD17291I.This IGD1729I message means, "when the initial allocation can not be satisfied on one volume, it will try to add additional volumes to t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

ITDS LDAP Sever should not run in supervisor state while calling R_admin()

ITDS LDAP Server calls R_admin() in supervisor state.This results in ignoring the IRR.RADMIN.* profiles in class FACILITY. See "IBM Tivoli Directory Server Administration and Use for z / OS," SC23-6788,Chapter 17. Accessing RACF informationand"Sec...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Planned for future release

EDGJNSCR in SYS1.SAMPLIB changes required

There are several errors in the EDGJNSCR samplib member. We ship several sample reporting jobs in SYS1.SAMPLIB, that are based on non-extended records but the job itself is does not specify this in its description. We should update the sample job ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

JES2 - no automatic Reconfiguration driven after Site Outage

After a planned SITE1 outage we saw that JES2 Reconfiguration was started driven by member "x", but just a few seconds later member "x" was QUIESCED as it was running in SITE1. Because of that we see that member "Y" has taken over with RECONFIGURA...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to list all z/OSMF Workflow Definitions

z/OSMF Workflow Definitions must be specified when creating a Workflow instance. However the user must know the name and location of the file that contains the Workflow Definition. It would be FAR easier to use Workflows if the Workflow Editor 'ca...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Request to create a new RLS command to show the name of the data sets that are allocated inside a data cache structure.

The Itau bank opened the PMR: 28951,228,631 because we didn't find a way to know the VSAM RLS data sets that were allocated inside a data cache structure. During the pmr the only way to find the name of those data sets was to check this informatio...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Future consideration

Suppression of creation of IUTSAMEH device

We would like to have the opportunity (f.e. a parameter in tcpip profile) to deactive the creation of IUTSAMEH device.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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