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Adding the &DS suffix to the DYNDUMP

Using DYNDUMP, the dump is partial due to the dataspace 2GB limit. When there is a huge amount of storage to be dumped, it is not possible for a complete transaction dump to be generated to an automatically allocated dataset that does not include ...
4 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability for DSS to be able to scratch and reallocate an in use (ENQed) dataset that is not the actual dataset in use during a logical copy operation.

System programmers who maintain indirectly cataloged datasets on a maintenance sysres / sysres set that gets cloned to an IPLable sysres set.
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration

DSFS createparm limitations

Currently dsadm createparm has following limitation:The user ID of the issuer of the command must match the HLQ (just the first qualifier) in order to be allowed to save creation parameters for the HLQ directory. We have many technical/application...
9 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration
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Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Add a RACDCERT REST API to z/OSMF

It would be useful if we could get an API to manage digital certificates or at the minimum get a list of keyrings and certificates on the system. A RACDCERT API could be used for external management tools and to make utilities that give notificati...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zERT Analyzer - Allow for inverted filters for TCP/EE Endpoints

Currently the selected filters for the TCP or EE Endpoints do only allow to use include filters. However, I want to specifically exclude a Server and Client address range, which is currently notpossible. Hence, the plugin shall support the option ...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

In z/OS the client needs a possibility to create keytab files with the option for custom salts to be used with WAS or other Components

Traditionally the keytab utility was shipped with the IBM Java SDK until Java 8 but misses the functionality to use a custom SALT. From Java 11 on, it was not further shipped. IBM z/OS offers a keytab utility but with very limited support to use a...
8 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

z/OS UNIX commands in /bin (cat, echo, touch, vi) as well as /bin/sh redirect should tag files.

I find myself tagging existing files that were untagged EBCDIC to work with new open-source ASCII based tools that rely on automatic conversion. A suggestion from Igor Todorovski ( itodorov@ca.ibm.com ): “Could be achieved by providing a new versi...
3 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Allow LDAP servers in a sysplex to share an activity log file

LDAP sysplex setups recommend that all servers in the sysplex share the same configuration file. This cannot be done if activity logging is in use because the LDAP server cannot handle file management during the rollover period. The only way to us...
5 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit should be site configurable to prevent the Editing of a non-zero PDSE member generation.

Editing a non-zero (non-base) PDSE member generation is asking for trouble for many reasons, the least of which is that non-zero generations are not able to be accessed via JCL or dynamic allocation. After much discussion on PDSEGEN the decision a...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

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