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TCPIP startup message

There are a lot of tasks depending on TCPIP startup.Actually there is no real TCPIP startup finished message issued that can an automation tool pick up. There should be a message issued when all functions of TCPIP are ready to do work so that the ...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Additional Granularity for FIXCDS commands

we would like additional granularity on FIXCDS commands to allow us to lock specific function such as delete and patch away under elevated access, while leaving things like display under standing access
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Delivered

More user roles & access control: predefined roles

More user roles & access control MVP1: predefined roles
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

RoCE - macvtap KVM

RoCE (macvtap KVM)
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

align with IBM z/VM recommendation to use vdisk as swapdisk for better performance.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

CSSMTP default MAIL FROM parametrisation needed

For security Reasons our MS Exchange Configuration requires that the Mailheader always contains the “MAIL FROM:” statement filled with a valid Emailadress.In the case that CSSMTP tries so send a mail notification for an undeliverable mail to the s...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Prompt user if they try to start a second z/OSMF Workflow instance from the same Workflow Definition.

Some z/OSMF might not be suited to having multiple instances running in parallel. However, because there is currently no way to know from a Workflow instance which Workflow Definition it was created from, it is possible to start a second instance ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

DFSMShsm PARTREL RC08 RSN94 is not reflected in MIGLOG via a message

We recently had issues with very large striped datasets that filled our storage.We couldn't find why DFSMSHSM did not do partrel processing on these datasets.Turn out that DFSMSHSM treats stiped datasets as multivolume datasets and hence does not ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered

Support RACF-group as step RunAs-approver

We want to be able to put in a RACF-group as a RunAs-approver in a workflow step and use it in CP&M templates. Currently it only seem to allow for user IDs (fails when trying to use in Software Services).
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

zHPF phase 1 support for normal minidisks,not only for fullpack minidisks in z/VM, so that it can be used by z/VSE V6.2 guest

For better I/O performance I need strongly the zHPF support in z/VSE V6.2 for my DL/1 database minidisks. These disks are normal minidisks and NOT fullback minidisks. But because "a few zHPF features are limited to fullpack minidisks or attached D...
over 5 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

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