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Core Infrastructure

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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

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.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant to support shared configuration in a sysplex

Using the Network Configuration Assistant within z/OSMF you first create a z/OS Group (type Sysplex) called PLEX1 say, then add a z/OS System Image (type System Image) into the group called MVSA, and then add a TCP/IP Stack (type Stack) under the ...
about 3 years 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

XCF_CF_STR_NONVOLATILE should have customizable STR-exclusion list

The health check XCF_CF_STR_NONVOLATILE should be customizable in a way that you can specify a list of structure names that should be excluded from the check.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

DSS should support all functions for the cloud too

Within HSM I recognized that DSS is not migrating some datasets to the cloud because of its limitations. In my case: ADR600E, RC=7, The data set is a VSAM data set where the high used RBA equals the high allocated HBA. First I thought it's an erro...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Planned for future release

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

RLIST for specific profile '*'

The RLIST command treats the asterisk as a wildcard. If a profile is named '*' then the command will list all profiles not just that one. Please enhance the RLIST command to allow the list of one specific profile especially a profile named '*'
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance zosmf SMP Features

I have tested SMP APPLY PTFS with zosmf gui. Basically it works, but there are some quirks 1) The "corrective" type of apply should present a list of all ptfs received and not applied yet so i can choose from a list If i want to apply all ptfs rec...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Enhancement to RACF to notify when there is a prolonged contention on critical RACF resources

We have experienced a prolonged Security Manager resources contention situation where the critical security manager resource is lockup by a low priority task while there is a higher priority task entered a spin loop and consumed all the CPUs in th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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