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Provide iNotify subsystem as on Linux and LoZ

This is a request to have an 'inotify' subsystem on z/OS, as currently exists on Linux and LoZ. There's no API on z/OS to monitor activity on directories, and poll() can only monitor files, sockets, etc. - but not directories.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

libevent / libev on z/OS

For multithread connections libevent and libev boost network performance. It is avaliable on other IBM platforms like AIX. Right now select is used to detect socket acitivity and it is an expensive operation. Usage of libevent and libev would be g...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

z/OS USS using "stat" and "st.st_size" does not give expected, correct value

z/OS - Unix System Services For such big file sizes, using "stat" and "st.st_size" does not give you a precise size value unfortunately as you see in comparison with the "ls -l" output that includes the exact value.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

BPXBATCH (family) needs continuation character for STDNV

Our OMEGAMON product needs some fairly long environment variables for z/OS Connect. currently the only way we have to supply them is via the STDENV DD. For instream data this is limited to 80 characters. I googled and searched KC but I can find no...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Ensure UNIX System Services is passing IP information to type 80s in all possible cases

Please evaluate all USS code that calls RACF and ensure wherever possible an IP is added to the logstring of the RACROUTE call.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Enhance BPXMRPWD __passwd syscall to pass IP information to the RACF logstring field at time of SMF recording

Enhance BPXMRPWD as part of __passwd syscall processing so that the IP address is recorded in the logstring field in type 80 records. See PMR 92769 L6Q 000 and updates from John Shebey.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Automount and RACF FSACCESS

When we use automount, where the policy creates a new zfs for a userid, in conjunction with RACF FSACCESS, "phantom" directories are created. It would seem more sensible that automount honours FSACCESS before the dataset is created.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Allow MSGCLASS to be overriden

The message class for z/OS Unix is class A. This is a print class for us and listings are being printed we don't want to print. From my experience Class A is a common print class.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

USS HealthChecks

We are requesting to add USS health checks to Health Checker for z/OS to validate correct USS configuration and also identify best practices. Some items that we would like checked: (1) Validate permission bits for /etc, /dev, /tmp (i.e. ensure tmp...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Remove appending a number to <8 character USS forked jobnames

For jobnames that are <8 characters, when the parent process forks a new process the new processes jobname becomes the parent jobname with a number from 1-9 appended. If the jobname is 8 characters long then the child processes jobnames are equ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

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