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Create health check for usercats not in VLF class IGGCAS

Usercatalogs should be defined to VLF class IGGCAS for best performance. A health check should be created to show any usercats that are not in the IGGCAS class for VLF.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 5 Delivered

DAE should include functionality to purge/discard dumps by a customizable duration of time.

DAE currently requires manual intervention to ensure dumps are no longer suppressed. It is not uncommon that problem scenarios can involve many of the same dump being produced within a very short duration of time (such as 10 minutes or 1 hr). In t...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Delivered

DFSMShsm for files exclude criteria in data set

Our current Spectrum Protect environment uses a standard set of criteria to use for all of the backups. The DFSMShsm BACKDS, HBACKDS, and hbackup commands need the ability to specify a file or data set containing the necessary Exclude criteria dur...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Delivered

Display Public Certificate in AT-TLS Trace

Many times when working with AT-TLS there are mismatched Certificate issues. Especially when you are the client. However even when you have the Tracing for ATTLS turned to 255 you can not extract the public certificate from the flow. 99% of the ti...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Instana integration

Instana integration: issues have been identified during some customer PoC.Key for production as they expect similar experience on x86/pub cloud.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Externalize HILITE values to ISPF Z variables

Externalize the HILITE values to ISPF Z variables (e.g. ZHILANG, ZHICOLOR, ZHIPAREN, ZHIFIND, ZHICURSR)
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Delivered

HMC <-> Support Element Communication must comply with PCI DSS / security requirements

To be compliant with the current PCI DSS requirements, certain cipher suites and signature algorithm must be used for the encrypted communication between HMC and Support Element. In contrast to the Web Frontend communication it is not possible to ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Additional Granularity for FIXCDS commands

we would like additional granularity on FIXCDS commands to allow us to lock specific function such as delete and patch away under elevated access, while leaving things like display under standing access
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Delivered

Improve skulker performance

With SFTP, each transfer creates a log file. With heavy usage, this can create thousands of log files daily. Using skulker to delete these files is no longer feasible since it can only delete around 4K files per hour using almost an entire engine ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

SMP/E SYSMOD Publish Date

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 08/30/2022 Submitter Name: Todd J Gagle (Software Architect) Submitter Email: todd.gagle@broadcom.com Description: The SYSMOD element currently contains several dates associated with PTF. These include INST...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

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