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ISR@PRIM - Session - Add OS Level

Add 'OS Level' when a user displays 'Session' information from the ISPF Menu (ISR@PRIM). With z/OS 2.1 and above, IBM has introduced/defined a new system symbolic to display the Operating System Level (&OSLEVEL) For example: Menu Utilities Com...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

Allow SMS to process DD DUMMY

We would like to eliminate all esoterics from HCD and thus allow SMS to be the sole source for esoterics. There is at least one circumstance where this is not a transparent change and that is when using the DUMMY parameter. For example if you have...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under 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) ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Improvements in zAWARE

It is important for us, zAware being able to read from syslog, because our installation is based on SYSLOG. Also we are interesting in synergies between IMS, DB2 and MQ, and zAware. And it is really important the coexistence between zAware and GDP...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

Allow greater flexibility in Certificate Name Filters

The Certificate Name Filters available under RACF today are very rigid in their matching process. As a short-hand, essentially one can consider the name filter as an exact search string match that the certificate subject must contain exactly. This...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Contents Supervision - Request for API's/Exit Points for RACF PROGRAM Class Verification Checks

As z/OS Contents Supervision does not issue standard RACF/SAF interfaces to check profiles in the RACF PROGRAM class when loading programs/modules into storage, the IBM zSecure Admin Access Monitor does not get sight of the authorisation check as ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Override system wide LE STORAGE(,,0,) setting within FTP to avoid high cpu when transferring tape files

We recently entered a case TS009032448 at IBM in which we addressed a FTP high cpu issue. Transferring a file from disk took less then 1 cpu sec and when transferring the file from tape it consumed 36 cpu seconds. After thorough investigation it a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Reduce volume of IFA786W messages when buffers fill up

We had an issue resulting in SMF log stream had no buffers available resulting in the following message being issued literally thousands of time and flooding our automation product and console: IFA786W SMF DATA LOST - NO BUFFER SPACE AVAILABLE TIM...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

have syntax checker fo pagent

If I want to change pagent, I update the configuration file, and issue F pagent,refresh on the production pagent. If there are problems, I have to roll back and redo the changes. This is not production like behaviour. You can only have one pagent ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

HMC - display timestamp of last successful logon to user

When a user logs on to an HMC, there is no indication displayed to the user of their last successful logon to the device.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

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