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Dual Control at zOS (for destructive activities)

Many System programmers and Administrators on zSystems have authority to delete data. Often they also have authority to Access DASD Subsystems(DS8*) or tape Subsystems (TS77/TS45). It would be good to have the possibility to allow destructive acti...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Any OSPROTECT processing should be offloaded on zIIP processor

When enabling the OSPROTECT=1 attirbute, any additional workload should not be executed on CP but on a zIIP processor
over 1 year ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under 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. ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

Simplify syntax for IDCAMS

Allow for an simplified syntax of IDCAMS commands No need for end of line continuation characters '-' or '+'. A statement (such as DEFINE, ALTER) would end when a new one begins. New END-statement syntax (END-DEFINE, END-ALTER) to signify the end ...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Add an APPL parameter (application name) to internal RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY calls

Add an APPL parameter (application name) for such calls so that INITSTATS can be configured to varying frequency with an APPLDATA profile to RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY calls internal to RACF
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Health check enhancement for XCF_CDS in a zOS Hyperswap environment managed by CSM

The existing checks XCF_CDS_SPOF and XCF_CDS_SEPARATION don't check in a HyperSwap environment that primary CDSes and alternate CDSes are on separate DASD boxes of different sites. An extention should check the site information of the HyperSwap se...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Extend JES2 SSI to return INTRDR settings like AUTH and CLASS

Please add an API extension (presumably in SSI 82) to be able to obtain the current JES2 INTRDR (template) settings as modified by $T INTRDR. Specifically AUTH is urgently needed, but more settings like CLASS are welcome.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Ability to dynamicall set the SYSOUT DD of active running job as spinnable

Currently, when a started task, ie CICS is running, we are unable to use the command to spin the SYSOUT DD off, if the attribute for that particular SYSOUT DD isn't set SPIN=. It'll be very useful if we can dynamically set a SYSOUT DD as spinnable...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Back reference SYSOUT DD JES data set

Kindly refer to PMR case number TS014415883 This will be useful when second step can back reference to the SYSPRINT from first step, done some filtering and produce the desire output in second step, whilst still able to see the actual output in fi...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Not under consideration

DSNTYPE=LARGE support as INPUT for IFASMFDP

This is a new public REQUEST for an older requets to permit user's votes on it.Initial request = MR0311105836 from 2011Migrated to RFE request as: RFE 50060 in 2014Due to increasing of SMF data, we need now to be able to use DSNTYPE=LARGE with IFA...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

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