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Core Infrastructure

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O/C/EOV exit for VSAM data sets

Provide dynamic exit support for OPEN and CLOSE similar to ICN 1861 for VSAM data sets.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 0 Future consideration

RMF DDS support for SYSRTD

Bank of America and CDPz team request to retrieve the SYSRTD report from RMF DDS.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

ICKDSF utility to include VVDS creation as part of INIT

Why is it useful: VVDS automatically creating immediately upon INIT causing VVDS created with less size, avoid timing issue and avoid automatic VVDS size creation Who will benefit: all the customers use ICDSF INIT, VVDS avoid redefine with customi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Make the use of base64-password encoding in z/OSMF workflow REST-API step type optional (or remove it)

Currently, in the REST-API step type of a z/OSMF workflow, you can only provide a password for authentification to a REST-API when the password is base64-encoded. This is a bit bulky, for example when using this step with variables for substitutio...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Communications Server SMTP application (CSSMTP)

it would be helpful to exchange emails using greek languange characters (EBCDIC 875)
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Inttermitten GRE packet processing delay on the target system cause unnecessary TCP retransmission

We are using VIPAROUTE and QDIO Accelerator for efficient delivery of distribute Sysplex Distributor traffic to the targets.There are a lot of unnecessary TCP retransmissions caused by intermittent GRE packet processing delay on the target system....
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Customer should not encounter additional software workload when enabling zHyperLink

Additional CPU software costs should not be experienced when enabling zHyperLink features. The customer should be given the option to convet zHyperLink I/O to FICON if the workload is not going to run on a z/IIP. This will allow the customer to en...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Allow PDUU to override TCPIP.DATA when using FTP flavor

PDUU can't override the global TCPIP.DATA values, when invoking FTP. As a result we can't make use of TCPIP.DATA overrides, like NOCACHE. Allowing NOCACHE would allow us to send each FTP stream through one of our different proxy servers via a Load...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Default Jobcard

Allow customer to supply default jobcard within z/OSMF.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

JES2 POLICY - read and use value of /*ROUTE XEQ node or /*XEQ node

Within the new JES2 POLICY we need the possibility to read and use the value of node name from /*ROUTE XEQ node or /*XEQ node.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration