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GDKUTIL setup exec SYS1.SAXREXEC(GDKAUTHP) Cloud Provider List should not always be empty if ~/gdk/providers exists

The developers of this utility have asked me to open an RFE for this change. See IBM case TS010292335 where I note that: Doc for GDKUTIL mentions that the following dirs should be created as follows in case local customization is needed: mkdir ~/g...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Reduce JES2 ePVT space requirement

We've recently upgraded to zOS 2.3, and JES2 now requires a large amount of ePVT storage. On z/OS V2.1, we must use 1200MB of ECSA for our IMS environment.Therefore, we want the JES2 ePVT space to be the same as V2.1 in order to upgrade to z / OS ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 5 Delivered

HWIREXX should support the passing of arguments to the invoked REXX exec

HWIREXX provides a way of running system rexx BCPii execs in batch. It does not, however, allow for the passing of arguments to teh invoked rexx . To overcome this, you need to find a different way of passing parameters(like reading them from a da...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Delivered

Allow Web Services to Change Properties of Objects Under Custom Groups

Per HMC/SE DE, Web Services does not have the granularity to be able to change the properties of objects that are under custom groups on the HMC. Regardless of where objects appear under custom groups when the members of the groups are listed unde...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

DFSORT Edit Masks create inacurate information

Current DFSORT Edit Masks do not allow the ability to show a decimal value without a leading zero before the decimal point. With a specification of: M-AE-AMOUNT,EDIT=(SIIIIIIIII.TT),SIGNS=(+,-),C'~',The value returned for 0.34 is just "34" - WITH ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Delivered

Implement Policy Agent PBR support for IPv6

Add Policy Agent Policy Based Routing (PBR) support for IPv6 with the same functions that it has for IPv4. The PBR functionality that currently exists for IPv4 should be carried forward to IPv6. Also update Policy Agent Configuration Assistant to ...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

dynamic changes for HW Crypto definitions in z/VM w/o IPL of z/VM

Allow dynamic changes of HW crypto support definitions in z/VM without the need of performing an IPL of z/VMIn an existing z/VM environment we had assigned a HW-Crypto queue to a z/VM LPAR (processor 1 Domain 4). When adding a CRYPTO statement to ...
about 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Control GDG index limits

would like to be able to control gdg index limits, like the enchancement for 'noscratch' & 'scratch' attributes coming out in zos 2.2 parmlib
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 6 Delivered

SSL connections

HI z/OS TCP/IP to cut an SMF record that indicates if connection is SSL enabled or not. SMF119 needs Policy Agent to be used for SSL. How to identify what connections are using SSL, from within an application, e.g. Cics Transaction Gateway.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

Filtering SDSF messages wrt to a task

I would like to a command that would help to filter any messages that are written by a task. Instead doing an FIND command that would look for the string .. I'm looking for a filter command that would pull all the lines wrt to a task.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

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