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Core Infrastructure

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SRB enhancement to support CBU operations

Our customer activates CBU during IPL at DR site and they issue CONFIG CP ONLINE command to add reserved zIIP. They decided to exploit SRB functionality on new system to expect accelerated IPL on new system. When they tested CBU procedure on new s...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Planned for future release

Populate SMF 82 40 CMACZERO fingerprint for more key types

Having a single key fingerprint or checksum in the SMF data leads to collisions when trying to validate that the same key is not present in multiple environments. Having a second fingerprint in the SMF 82 40 records would help us to determine whet...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Future consideration

Z/OS PARMDD to support started task parameter

Please have PARMDD support started task parameter
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 0 Future consideration

zERT - Match the least common denominator of a rule

With the current setup of Reusable Rules that combines a combination of Traffic Descriptor Data Endpoints TLS or SSH version Protection Characteristics It is required that all of the specifics match to trigger the required action. This beha...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

HSM improvement related to the ARCMDEXT EXIT and new parameter request

The Itau bank has 2 very large Sysplexes Bank and Cards.The Bank environment has a heavy batch workload that relies on the HSM task. The batch processing has a lot of GDG datasets.The Itau is using the EXIT ARCMDEXT to inform the HSM during the mi...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 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

Enhance the IPSEC command to delete a shadow tunnel

We hit an issue where the main SWSA tunnel came down but one of the shadow tunnels remained active and thus caused our server on that host to become unresponsive. We had no way of removing the shadow tunnel to resume our workload on that LPAR and ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Using GCP Workload Identity Federation in DFSMS Cloud Data Access

We've had discussions, about the security, with our internal Cloud Core team and they're suggesting to use GCP Workload Identity Federation instead of GCP service account json file and it's going to improve the security issues significantly.
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF - ISPF app, option to choose background color and/or a z/OSMF 3270 Terminal like Zowe Desktop has.

z/OSMF - For the ISPF app, having the option to choose a background color would be great. Specifically to doctor the ISPF app to resemble a 3270 emulator default color scheme. The white background the apps in z/OSMF tends to strain eyes after awhi...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION monitor *MASTER* address space

Check PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION should monitor *MASTER* storage exhaustion.Usually when the master address space storage exhausts an IPL is needed to recover. This would not be necessary if PFA had alerted on the gradual storage inflation cau...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Planned for future release

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