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More granular setup of healthcheck RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES

Healthcheck RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES covers a lot of different resources. If one of the checks fails the whole check fails. To prevent false-postive checks on this healthcheck the only option is to deactivate the healthcheck as a whole. It would b...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Script execution entries.

It would be helpful to identify what scripts have executed in OMVS. Helps to resolve issue wrt to sript execution or failures chekcing.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Component name in IFGRPL

When the Vsam has no more volumes, there's a need to make an extent by idcams.To automate de idcams jcl, there's a requirement to know the component name of vsam to extent, but there's no information of that in ifgrpl. we need this information in ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

Need ISPF sample exit cleanup

Hello, In SC19-3619-01 p.234 there is a pointer to a sample panel exit named ISPPXMNX in ISP.SISPSAMP. This sample exit appears to be assembler generated from a PL/X exit and is essentially unreadable. It seems to us that as an example, this is un...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.

Hello, z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DFDSS DUMP to have options to process HSM migrated datasets

Users have asked me to raise this issue that they would like DFDSS to be able to dump HSM migrated datasets - possibly by recalling them with NOWAIT, or even by performing some kind of COPYDUMP process directly from the migration volume
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

VSAM Verify to repair control blocks

If VSAM open feedback indicates improperly closed VSAM, we would like to have VSAM open to implicitly drive VSAM Verify one time and re-drive the open request. This is to be done in a fashion that application requesting OPEN is successful in the c...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Include IRRPRMXX parms in RVARY LIST output

Request to update the RVARY LIST command's output to include all possible parameters which could be specified in the PARMLIB(IRRPRMxx) RACF data set name table member. Currently, parms such as BUFFERS, UPDATEBACKUP are not in the output; thus user...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

determine file size when viewing workstation file

ISPF and its workstation agent should be changed so that they can determine the size of the workstation file being viewed and allocate a sufficiently large z/OS work data set to avoid the out-of-space condition.
about 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Need to register more than one user with the same email address in the WORKATTR segment

It is quite common for a single human to have more than one system id, but have only one corporate email address. I am unable to register more than one user with the same email address in the WORKATTR segment. I get this error and the email addres...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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