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Native REST API for Administration and Reporting against RACF Databases

A native REST API for administration and reporting against RACF would be extremely helpful for automation and product flexibility. Example functions would be CRUD against user ID's/OMVS segments, CRUD for dataset/resource rules, and modifying grou...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allow Site and Vendor whatis files

With the growth in the use of the z/OS Unix (OMVS) environment there are more non-IBM additions to the set of available commands. The majority of these additional commands come from outside IBM. Many of these commands (one would hope all) have man...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Future consideration

Supply z/ERT code as open-source

z/ert is only available for SMF 119 subtype 12.I would like to use the idea of z/ERT to check the other SMF 119 records. Use a z/ERT like program to retrieve certain connection information ex. Subtype 3 or Subtype 22 If the source code would be pr...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Holder can't be FORCED when their is SYSIEFSD ENQ contention

When the QEDIT assembler service is invoked to free a CIB, an exclusive ENQ on SYSIEFSD Q10 is obtained to serialize the CSCB chain. While holding the ENQ, a SPOST is issued to ensure that all in progress POSTS to the address space have completed ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

Add better support to IEBCOPY for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

Capacity Provisioning Manager Record Report Does Not show MSU Cost for Upgrades

When using the CPOSERV OOCUOD Record Report, CPM does not provide any indication whether an engine is banked. This report needs to display the MSU cost for each incremental upgrade where in the case of using OOCUOD to activate a banked engine, the...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

Enhance OMVS cp command

Enhance the OMVS cp command by allowing the user to set an option, perhaps via an environmental variable, to increase the number of buffers used for the copy.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

Espansion problem on DB2 table allocated on Storage group with available free space

DB2 for z/OS does not elect to reuse the space that it freed up on the first volume of multivolume vsam dat set.DFSMS will not and cannot know it is available for reuse.Since the data set is a Linear Data Set, it is up to the application to determ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

Provide list-of-groups functionality for access checking RACF NODES profiles

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide the capability for RACF to validate access to NODES...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide a more granular control over timeout Abends (S522) than SMFPRMxx JWT/SWT/SWT

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide a more granular means of controlling / protecting j...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

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