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Core Infrastructure

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Media manager interfaces should provide feedback as to whether writes are actually using zHyperWrite or not

The media manager interfaces don't give enough feedback about whether zHyperWrite is working or not. They only tell a caller that a data-set is zHyperWrite enabled, or not, during initial connect to that data-set. zHyperWrite state can easily chan...
4 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Media Manager 1 Submitted

Provide consistent easy RCF link from all formats

Provide an easy way to submit reader comments, consistent between the HTML and PDF versions, with adequate instructions. Currently the PDF versions link to a documentation page that does not have an obvious link for reader comments.
4 days ago in z/OS / Documentation 1 Submitted

Built-in z/OS Unix package manager

z/OS Unix is slowly becoming more widely used and relevant with technologies like Python, GO, Zowe Explorer, Zowe Desktop and so on. Installs via pax are becoming more common and a new generation of systems programmers are coming in that need to i...
8 days ago in z/OS / General 2 Submitted

Provide a mechanism to prevent the use of Flash Copy if Preserve Mirror Required is not also specified

In a GDSP Metro Mirror configuration, recoverability it broken if a Flash Copy is initiated without Preserve Mirror being invoked. I believe, in this configuration, it is better for a Flash Copy to fail if Preserve Mirror is not performed. What is...
about 7 hours ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Submitted

CFRM policy editor: support for comments

CFRM policy editor does not support comments. When importing the CFRM policy from a dataset, current available comments in the JCL of the CFRM policy are lost.It would mean that we can't document anything if using the zOSMF CFRM policy editor. ZOS...
1 day ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Include additional material in indexed PDFs

The HLASM, HLASM Toolkit and z/Architecture manuals are high usain one place.ge. It would be convenient if the could be download and search
4 days ago in z/OS / Documentation 0 Submitted

Consolidated SMPLOG and SMPLOGA for all zones including Global

Today there is a separate SMPLOG for each zone. It would be nice to have the logs Consolidated into one set of datasets that remain much like the SMPPTS. This will reduce the number of datasets and disk space and have one dataset with all past log...
9 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

RACF Trace to trace only nonzero return codes

I can enable RACF trace for a job, but it captures so many records, and it is hard to find the records of interest. I would like to see a new option #SET TRACE(NONZERO) which produces only exit records where the return code was non zero.
15 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Desirable new feature: GROUP revoke inactive days and consequently new user inactivity policy

We have set SETROPTS INACTIVE(60) and this is applicable for all users. However, we have some specific users with the requirement not to be revoked after 60 days but at different than this value. So, Inactivity should be helpful to be defined as g...
16 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Create a report to show the unused defaults table entries

If a customer has a large number of VRS definitions he can use the VRSEL report to identify "Unused VRS Definitions" at the end of the report. I have successfully converted a customer with approximate 13.0000 RDS definitions to approximate 13.000 ...
20 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Submitted

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