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Give better warning when hitting Finish without performing step in workflow

When manually processing a workflow step, the user can hit Finish from the Instructions tab by accident and the step gets marked Complete. While there is text above the instructions, that text is not real "visible" as the customer's focus is on th...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Intermittent FCNOCOPY FCTOPPRCP(PRESMIRREQ) Failures with ADR935W

IBM requested that this RFE be defined with a Product/Component of Preserve Mirror/5675DF117.I was unable to select these through the submit process so I have included the note above to ensure this request gets properly assigned. We are a 4-site G...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Enhanced ICSF Query Facility to display cryptographic hardware segment information

We would like an enhanced CSFIQF ICSF query that would provide cryptographic segment 1-3 configuration detail similar to that provided within the HMC displays. (an example of the HMC segment information we would like to see as part of an CSFIQF fu...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Future consideration

VSAM RLS KSDS to monitor pseudo splits

Bradesco Bank want IBM to add a way to monitor RLS VSAM (KSDS) 'Pseudo Split' occurrences. Customer wants to have a capability that can be used to implement a governance process for this purpose. "Pseudo split" situation is where new records are i...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 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

Improve CONFIGxx PARMLIB member processing for PPRC environments

Background: Currently CONFIGxx members are maintained manually by FI for every system in the sysplex with names CONFIG&SYSCLONE. These members contain desired states for 1. Storage and CPU's that are to be online. 2. Channel paths that should ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

FACILITY STGADMIN for IDCAMS VERIFY

Title “STGADMIN.IDC profile for IDCAMS VERIFY” Target Group: DFSMS & RACFRequest: Addition to RACF FACILITY CLASS CheckingResource Name (proposed): STGADMIN.IDC.VERIFY.DATASETPurpose: To avoid the need for ALTER access to the DS. Sample JCL th...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Add the sum option to the UCLASS subcommand in Performance Toolkit

z/VSE is eligible for sub-capacity pricing. Then on it could be valuable to know how evolves the sum of the CPU load for all VSE's for which sub-pricing capacity is applied. The FCONTROL DEFLOG subcommand of the Performance Toolkit allows defining...
almost 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Reduce CPU consumption for cipher suites including DH

We call in our CICS applications external webservices and external http requests, which are hosted at external Partners, means there is a http conversation between CICS and an external Partner, in which CICS has the role Client. For security reaso...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / SSL 3 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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