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Display specific error messages in the NCA z/OSMF UI pages

When trying to delete a port in the Network Configuration Assistant pages of z/OSMF, the freeing of the port failed with:Internal Server Error - 500CAMSGE There was no other message, which led to a difficult time understanding and resolving the is...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Enforce Master Key "Key Parts" to be entered by different TSO userids

When master keys are changed under the ICSF panels (in ISPF), ICSF has no knowledge of whether the first, middle or last key parts were entered by the same userid.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Delivered

Create a new parameter to allow OMPROUTE to send requests to the DNS Server a specified number of times. related to EZZ3908E.

We are receiving numerous EZZ3908E errors where the DNS Server is not responding before the timeout occurs. I would like to address 2 things. First is that these occur during off hours and there may only be one request. It fail so there is a 100% ...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Delivered

Reduce CPU overhead of SET RDEV command when z/VM Dynamic I/O Reconfig on LinuxONE

zLinux on z / VM is running integrated DB server with 24 x 365. When adding DASD etc., I use dynamic I / O Reconfig function.In order to connect the new DASD to the z / VM system running at 24 x 365 and recognize it, the SET RDEV command is execut...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Delivered

CSSMTP is rejecting emails containing nulls if lines are greater then 512 characters.

We at Morgan Stanley want an option setting for CSSMTP that if turned on will treat nulls the way CSSMTP treats blanks. Currently Blanks are not counted in line totals but nulls are.
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Support for all/international characters

If any special character in a dataset z/OSMF can't access.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

Support of 256 characters long user names in CSSMTP

We have a mailing application that use long user names of 140 characters length. With SMTPD the MaxUserName value is 256 characters but with CSSMTP this must not exceed 64 characters in length. For upgrade compatibility this limit should be extend...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

*VMEVENT

Create *VMEVENT records when real devices are attached, detached or changed in a userid. i.e. real device xxxx is attached as virtual device yyy.Create a *VMEVENT recordNow the user does CP DEFINE yyy AS zzzCreate another *VMEVENT recordNow the us...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Allow for Filtering on Needs Install field in zOSMF

Currently in zOSMF you can filter on different columns however you can not filter on if the profile needs to be installed. This would make it easier to be able to install across multiple systems since as you installed they would disappear from you...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Dataset profile EXTRACT feature for IRRSEQ00 RACF API

Hello, Following the PMR 68238,662,706 could you enhance the RACF API IRRSEQ00 to add a feature to extract dataset profile information ? A feature called ADMN_XTR_DATASET should be wonderful (like ADMN_XTR_USER or ADMN_XTR_RESOURCE) because at thi...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Delivered

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