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    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...
    over 8 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 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

    USS panel BPXWP20 "Work with Mounted File Systems" does not show the mount hierarchies.

    It would be nice to see the hierarchy of mount points on the BPXWP20. An intuitive/topological presentation of file systems would be very helpful. The practical purpose would be unmounting an FS that has child mount points to other FS'es. For exam...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under 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 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 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.
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

    Provide a SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK equivalent via a batch job.

    Request a batch utility which would allow you to check BPXPRMxx syntax via a DD for input and route the output to a DD. The benefits would be: (1) Allow any location for input (vs. current SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK which must come from PARMLIB) and (2) ...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under 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...
    about 11 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

    ZFS save cpu. Provide option to stop SMF file activity, and eliminate getmain/free main for every open/close SMF record

    When I was looking into Java was so slow on z/OS compared to Ubuntu, I noticed there was an SMF call for every file open ( and close) , and a getmain/freemain as well. To start z/OSMF took over 600 seconds of CPU! This needs to come down to about ...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under 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 ...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

    Simplified MNTE_SYSLIST syntax as part of z/OS UNIX REXX mount command

    Currently, if a user would like to include MNTE_SYSLIST as a parm in his USS REXX mount command implementation, the user must code the MNTE_SYSLIST as though they are writing assembler code using the mapping described in BPXYMNTE: MNTENTSYSLISTNUM...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

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