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NOSETUID as a MOUNT default

We are a very large USS environment and in the interest of security would prefer to mount the vast majority of our filesystems using NOSETUID. We have thousands of mounts to maintain. The current mount default of SETUID requires specification of N...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Improvements to the ability to ascertain whether zFS filesystems are in migration

There is currently no way to check whether filesystems are in mirroring complete status but waiting for a swap operation to complete other than using the bpxwmigf command. I'd also like a new reason code issued when the user attempts to manually m...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

syntaxcheck

We would like to request extend syntaxcheck by including 'PARM(...)' checking also when syntaxcheck for bpxprm is executed.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Allow the same file name (indirectly volser cataloged) to be mounted to different mountpoints in a shared fileysystem

The ability to mount the same name filesystem (indirectly cataloged) to different version mountpoints would simplify deployment for me.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Audit all superuser usage

Provide the ability to audit ALL superuser usage.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Avoid manual link creation to /bin/env for Node.js

During the installation of Node.js a manual creation of the symlink "ln -s /bin/env /usr/bin/env" is advised.We try to avoid manual changes to the /usr directory provided by IBM.The link could be provided by IBM in the z/OS root filesystem or the ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Customer needs to map up to one million shared mutex/shared condvar per shared memory segment under z/OS Unix.

Customer running an app that hit an internal limit (JRSMCMaxCntSeg 65535 decimal)) creating shared mutex and shared convars. Discussions with the customer indicate that there is a need to support one million of these type of structures. This will ...
9 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Improve USS_PARMLIB Healthcheck to allow for async mounts

Healthcheck USS_PARMLIB flags an exception for filesystems that are mounted asynchronously. The error is 'Path not found. RC=00000070 RSN=05940350'. However, by the time the check runs again, the file system is mounted so the check is successful. ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Ignore invalid entries in the AUTOMOUNT policy and activate the policy with valid entries.

We've had a directory in our automount policy that did not actually exist for some time and it has not had any ill effects from IPL to IPL of lpars in the sysplex. This past weekend we had a sysplex outage and the unallocated directory prevented t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK

The PARMLIB(BPXPRM00) member is shared between two partitions (SQA1 and SQT1) of the same sysplex. It contains the following mount command among others: MOUNT FILESYSTEM('SYSB.PHAP850.UNIX.&SYSNAME..HTTPSRVR') TYPE(HFS) MODE(RDWR) MOUNTPOINT('...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

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