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Core Infrastructure

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DfSMSdss generic RENAME to allow change in number of qualifiers

DfSMSdss provides the RENAME and RENAMEUNCONDITIONAL options to rename datasets when they are restored or copied, either by changing the first-level qualifier of the dataset name, or by matching the dataset name to an 'old-name' in a list of (old-...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Enhance zERT discovery to be more accurate in recognizing and recording TLS sessions with very large handshake messages and unusual timing

zERT discovery is currently unable to recognize TLS sessions when handshake messages exceed the maximum TLS record length. It also relies on timers in specific situations that can sometimes generate misleading information regarding TLS sessions th...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

SDSF DA should show zIIP in title line

SDSF DA (Display Active) shows in the title line the CPU usage from current LPAR, from the whole CEC and (if you have one) the zAAP usage.zAAPs are replaced by zIIPs.So please show the current zIIP usage in the title line.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Allow SYSDSN in CLIST/REXX to have NORECALL like LISTDSI

Currently if you use SYSDSN in a REXX/CLIST and the dataset is migrated, it needs to be recalled by the function. However, with LISTDSI there is an option for NORECALL to prevent that from occurring. With the inclusion of NORECALL as an option on ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Request for enhancement to BPX1KIL/kill() to provide a specific return code for killing processes in zombie states

For the following scenario:- FOTS3214 cleanup_exit: kill(16777238): EDC5139I Operation not permitted.(errno2=0x0D100114) - Currently this is a unique timing window where the privsep child process is running without it's parent having a SIGCHLD han...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Make DAE - ADYSET00 possible to supress SYSUDUMP the same way as SYSMDUMP can be supressed today.

When we get problems in our Environment with a lot of SYSUDUMPs produced and filling up our SPOOL volumes. Then we would like to have the possibility that DAE - ADYSET00 can supress all our SYSUDUMP's. This can avoid that all our spool volumes to ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Enable SNMP subagents to support SNMPv3

I would like to eliminate as much unencrypted SNMP as possible. To do that it would help if the SNMP subagents (such as IOBSNMP, TCP/IP Subagent and OSPF Subagent) could be configured to work with SNMPv3 (preferably at AES128).
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Future consideration

Encryption Facility must display the Key id used to decypher a message

When we receive an OpenPGP document (message), it is decypher by IBM Encryption Facility. Only two messages are displayed by the tool : CSD0779I Signature by key ID 7FCA32ED59C06F76 is valid.CSD0051I Command processing has completed successfully. ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

HSM FLB Message Suppression

Suppress generated error messages or route them with another routecode.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration