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Compression/Decompression Capabilities for CMS/TSO Pipelines

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00057071User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSCMSX96009Title: Compression/Decompression Capabilities for CMS/TSO PipelinesSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPO...
about 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF: Allow mass-update for Workflows in the Workflows GUI

Allow some sort of "Mass update" function for the workflows in the workflows GUI. Currently, there is no way to modify multiple workflows when you are not the owner of the workflow.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide the option to request DSSB to be allocated in Common storage by OPEN

JES3plus uses its own STARTIO Driver. In order to allow the creation of SMF record 42 subtype 6 for spool I/O data sets, JES3plus needs to provide an IOD control block (pointed to by the JES3plus IOSB extension - IOSXIOD), which will point to the ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

zOSMF REST and multijob stream

When using the zOSMF REST interface to submit a multi-step job only the last job is returned. We need all jobs to be returnedFor example, we have this piece of jcl//WAITJOB1 JOB ,'ARYTST',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,// NOTIFY=&SYSUID,REGION=4M/*JOBPARM...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Protect a SVIPA in one LPAR from being overridden with a DVIPA with same IP address in another LPAR on a shared OSA

A static VIPA (SVIPA) is defined in LPAR1 and a VIPARANGE of DVIPAs is defined in LPAR2 that overlaps the SVIPA. Customer inadvertently specified SVIPA as the source IP address for a FTP batch job on LPAR2 and the following actions were taken: 1) ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ZOSMF Configuration Assistant - Automatic backups Configuration Changes

Our team uses z/OSMF Communication Server Configuration Assistant to implement at-tls, ids, and ipsec policy on z/OS 2.2 Communications Server. We would like for configurations to be automatically backed up after a change is made in each. Several ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zOS OpenSSH extended attrs

Hello, Secure file transfers between mainframe ( client ) and remote Windows server ( FreeSSHD) abends with following message: FOTS0883 remote open ("...") : Bad message There were tested two cases:Mainframe -> Wintel file transfers ending with...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Future consideration

Log Stream Archive Function Forces Output Record

What we are looking for is a solution to the following requirement from IFASMFDL (taken from the SMF Manual Chapter 3, Using the SMF Dump Programs): For an ARCHIVE request, you must write each record in the log stream up until the end date and tim...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 3 Not under consideration

Update OCOPY to correct abend S213-15 (IEC143I) if DSNTYPE=LARGE and SMS BLOCKTOKENSIZE is REQUIREd

We depend OCOPY to move files from z/OS Unix space (zFS) and more importantly, Network File System space into z/OS data sets. These files can be very large and require DSNTYPE=LARGE. However, in our z/OS ISV development environment with SMS settin...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

C fopen() fails with errno 41 for VSAM VRRDS files; EDC5041I An error was detected at the system level when opening a file.

We have products that use the VSAM VRRDS file type. We would like to use Java and the JZOS Toolkit to open and read these files while remaining zIIP eligable. The JZOS Toolkit uses the C fopen() to open VSAM files and this fails for the VRRDS file...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration