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Enhance UNIX to allow file level control using WHEN(SERVAUTH)

Please enhance z/OS UNIX so that WHEN(SERVAUTH) support in RACF can be used to grant access at a file level in UNIX.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Update OCOPY to correct abend S213-15 (IEC143I) if DSNTYPE=LARGE and SMS BLOCKTOKENSIZE is REQUIREd

We depend OCOPY to move files from z/OS Unix space (zFS) and more importantly, Network File System space into z/OS data sets. These files can be very large and require DSNTYPE=LARGE. However, in our z/OS ISV development environment with SMS settin...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

HealthCheck IBMUSS,USS_CLIENT_MOUNTS with NFS unusable

In our environment the health check displays permanently NFS errors which are in our customisation nomal. Everything is working fine, but the HealthCheck is generally unusable with these NFS CLIENT=Y errors. Problem is not solvable thru a change i...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Provide UNIX dirfd() functionality on z/OS for portability

dirfd - extract the file descriptor used by a DIR streamJustification: For purposes of porting code from other UNIX platforms to z/OS support for the OpenGroup defined dirfd() function should be provided so that a directory can be assigned a file ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

z/OS USS DYNACT reset SERV_LINKLIB/LPALIB values back to default

I accidentally set USS SERV_LPALIB to something. Want to reset it back to the default, in my case - NULLS or NONE. There is no way to do it (discussed with John Shebey + John Helmbold).
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

UNIX System Services does not recognize a sysplex-aware filesystem

When a zFS filesystem is dynamically changed from non-sysplex aware to sysplex aware, USS does not recognize the filesystem as being sysplex aware. This can cause confusion as to whether the filesystem is indeed sysplex aware or not. Healthchecker...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 5 Future consideration

Health Check for USS mounts would benefit from ability to specify "expected deviation"

In a multi-member sysplex it isn't unusual for a shared BPXPRMxx member to attempt to mount a symbolically described ZFS at a mountpoint already occupied by a data set from another IPL set. This is flagged as a mount failure on the system attempti...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

the ability to increase or set ARG_MAX in USS

We are wondering if there is some way to change and set ARG_MAX to a higher value than 1048576 bytes long.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

CICS - automount permissions for UNIX files

Preparing our environment for Java, we engaged our operating systems and security groups to help with file allocations for CICS JVM directories. These allocations occur when a CICS JVM is installed into the region. The UNIX automount feature was u...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

BPXF038I is a misleading answer to command "F BPXOINIT,FILESYS=DISPLAY,EXCEPTION"

Hello, The following command list exceptions with mounted files system: F BPXOINIT,FILESYS=DISPLAY,EXCEPTION The answer if there are *no* exceptions to report is: BPXF038I NO FILE SYSTEMS FOUND. This message is misleading and incorrect. There are ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

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