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OAM resiliency enhancement

We're using OAM object support out of CICS and by using the new OAM REST API. We would love to see some resiliency enhancements regarding OAM that would solve some possible "outages" of applications calling OAM in situations when we may face issue...
11 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

PROCLIB protection in JES2

Hello, Is it possible to enforce the PROCLIB protection witin JES2 ? Today if we would like to force it, we must update the PPT to override DSI for HASPJES20 program. An option in JES2PARM will be appreciated for this functionnality. As we see a l...
8 days ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

Remove usage restrictions for Dynamic System Variable &SEQ

We have a situation where we need to use &SEQ to provide uniqueness in dataset name used in the SYSMDUMP DD. To collect dumps, we have coded the SYSMDUMP in our Application WLM Procs. When we do a WLM refresh, if multiple WLM Application envir...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor Future consideration

Monitoring Initial Size of Coupling Facility Structures

It was noticed a problem during a Coupling Facility outage when was necessary to move structures from one CF to another CF. The rebuild/recovery process was not completed sucessfully because the INITSIZE of a WMQ Structure was smaller than the req...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES Future consideration

RMF 74.1 should be updated to allow a simple association between related primary and secondary I/Os

When CRS (Consistent Read from Secondary) is activated, RMF data cannot be used to accurately report on the z/OS online I/O activity. Secondary read I/Os are performed to offline devices and there is no possibility of easily associating the origin...
2 months ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer Future consideration

Optimization output naviquest batch ACBJBARD and ACBJBAXV

We need a optimization output naviquest batch report ACBJBARD (Invokes ACBQBAR7 for dataset) and ACBJBAXV(Invokes ACBQBAR6 for DASD volume report). Currently, in job outputs the space values are left-aligned, and the information may be shown in KB...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest Future consideration

Routing messages to extended console on the host that submitted the QUERY USER also from other involved HSMs.

Details available in TS022568398 HSM Incomplete Console response using QUERYSET - SYS1.SAMPLIB(ARCTOOLS)
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM Future consideration

To capture the SC's LOCK SET NAME from the DCOLLECT

Today, DCOLLECT does not provide the lock structure information, which limits our ability to validate the definitions between the Current SCDS and the New SCDS.The below records are being generated from the DCOLLECT and used for the comparison bet...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest Future consideration

Enhance Shell CP utility to create immutable load module copies

The z/OS UNIX CP command when copying a load module from a data set to a data set does not create an immutable copy. The resulting copy differs from the original source load module which can be seen using SuperC, this is because cp calls the binde...
5 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Future consideration

Log RACF keyring and certificate usage to enable proper validation and auditing

Determining whether a RACF keyring or any RACF certificate is still in use by an application (e.g., started task, batch job, etc.) is a very challenging task. Neither RACF nor other components like zERT generate SMF records that capture the usage ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

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