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System Logger offload monitoring should create a diagnostic dump upon detection of an offload delay.

System Logger offload monitoring provides notification of delays in log stream offload processing with the goal of allowing an installation to take action to prevent log streams filling to capacity, which would result in the failure of IXGWRITE re...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

Increase maximum length of MVS Console commands

The MVS console does not accept commands longer than 126 characters.This can be a problem when issuing long commands (such as DUMP, SLIP, or GTF commands) from CLISTs or other automation scripts. Given that this occurrence is quite frequent, we sh...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

DupAck - Input and Output Out-of-order packets

It was noticed an abnormal ammount of "Dup acks" in TCP connections. Since the two end points of those connections are inside a datacenter (no external links) it usually means there are lost packets.Some traces (SYSTCPDA and SYSTCPOT) were capture...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Improvements deleting variables

In z/OSMF SCA, you can define variables to complete the resources in the "configurable" tab. It would be helpful to have the following options: Remove all variables at once, i.e. return to the initial display with the placeholders for the variable...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Keep history of changes when changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF, although the person who submits the updates can view information about their changes from the View Text Contents panel, others don't know what changes they have made. So we want to keep the hist...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Reduce CPU consumption of IOS HyperSwap API address space for a large number of addresses

When executing a reload of the GDPS GEOPARM the IOSHSAPI ( IOS HyperSwap API address space ) consumes a lot of CPU in a short period of time when there is a high number of addresses under GDPS, causing some customer applications to slowdown and ha...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

zOSMF Enforce Default save location for all workflows

There is no possibility to define or enforce a default save location for all users. Each User can save a workflow to any location where he/she was write access to. As this can produce a complete mess and no one have an overview about all workflows...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Add additional filtering keywords to IEASYMxx

If IEASYMxx supported a SYSDEF SYSRES(volser) parameter it would be possible to set other symbols based on the volser of the sysres. This would eliminate the need for the system programmer to change IEASYMxx each time the IPL volume changed. Reduc...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

Rebuild masterkey - securise the masterkey change procedure with ICSF

Two Security Officers (OS) want to build a masterkey with two key parts from the menus ISPF/ICSF 1. The two OS are connected on the Panel CSFDKE50 ( ICSF - Master Key Entry) at the same time 2. The first OS informs: • Key Type: ECC-MK • Part: Firs...
8 months ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Is a defect

Password changes via RRSF should be logged in the target system

If a password is changed by a user and setropts audit(user) is active, an SMF data record of type 80 is written.If the new password is passed on to a target system via RRSF, the password change is not logged in the target system. There is no SMF r...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration