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DEFINE USERCATALOG and Master Catalog UPDATE Authority Bypass

Storage Administration staff members should be specifically allowed to perform usercatalog recoveries without the provision of master catalog UPDATE authority. Currently, when a Storage Administrator attempts to Define or Connect a Usercatalog, UP...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

CHECK(IBMCATALOG,CATALOG_RNLS)

The following DFSMS/CATALOG Health Check is misleading if the system is running CA-MII with GRSRNL=EXCLUDE:CHECK(IBMCATALOG,CATALOG_RNLS) There is no way to determine which reserves MII is configured to process.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 4 Not under consideration

zAware Feature to Wildcard Messages

The ability to ignore zAware messages with a wildcard and applying changes to all monitored LPARs with one submission.
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

WOAS0705-819 RACF needs to support any character in the RACF Class Definition - Security WG

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bill.ODonnellSubmitters Company: PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: WOAS0705-819 RACF needs to support any character in the RACF Class Definition - Security WGHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: WebSphereCurr...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

NetAccess Support for RFC1700

According to RFC1700, the address block 0.0.0.0/8 to cover range 0.0.0.0 - 0.255.255.255 is used for broadcast messages to this network. Without RFC1700 support there is no way to reserve that IP range in NetAccess to a specific profile covering it.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

NFSv4 OPEN readforsize for READ request

The process on the NFS client stops the READ of the data because it takes too long.The reason for the long duration is the 'read for size' for the large MVS data set(20GB) during the v4OPEN compound although fastfilesize is defined..The 'read for ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP Profile - readability of configuration file

The generated TCPIP Profile lacks readability. The installed tcpip profile should be readable, with reasonable indention and spacing.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Common Recall Queue, Request for Enhancement

Common Recall Queue manual process of holding recall queue before you vary off local drives on specific LPAR, so the common recall queue can reach the other LPAR drives.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

TKE 8.0 is too loud

In comparision with the TKE 7.2 the TKE 8.0 is very loud, even if it is turned off. The TKE is placed in our office and the high noise level in off mode is disturbing while working.
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Need a parm to be added in SETSMS CICSVR command as a part of RFE 89552

Needed the below shown options for SETSMS command in DFSMS as a part of RFE 89552 development. SETSMS CICSVR_TIMER(x) x - can be any value from 0 to 7200
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Not under consideration

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