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Make PassTicket Java library thread-safe

The segmentation error may occur when calling IRRRacf.jar to generate a PassTicket in Java. This happens when a Java service is under heavy load and PassTickets are generated concurrently. Could you enhance PassTicket generation in Java to be thre...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Parm to remove report lines from IXCMIAPU

Please add a PARM to IXCMIAPU so that it does not issue line breaks, page counts and report headers ADMINISTRATIVE DATA UTILITY: REPORT DATA TYPE = CFRM 06/12/2019 17:30:16 PAGE 4 ___________________________________________________________________...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Encryption facility for z/OS Key management requirement

We are running z/OS 2.3 and we have Encryption Facility for z/OS (FMID HCF7740). We have a limited number of applications using the product at this time, but we would like to introduce it to more applications. There are a couple of factors limitin...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Future consideration

enhance ICSF panel R to list out the ACPs the same way as the TKE workstation.

Hi there, Currently ICSF panel R only alphabetically lists out only the enabled ACPs in just one big list. ICSF manual alphabetically lists out all available ACPs but also in one big list. my RFE is to request for ICSF panel R enhanced to list out...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

HOLDUNTL a relative date

When SCHEDULE HOLDUNTL has a date specified it requires an absolute date (MM/DD/YY or YYYY/DDDD). This request would allow a relative day: ({[ 'HH:MM' ] , [ '+N'' ]}), where N is the number of days after the submission to which the job will be hel...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Enhance SDSF Log Read Options

Please provide an option to filter for specific messages when reading the log. ISFLOGSTARTDATE works to set a starting date with ISFLOGSTOPDATE setting the ending date for the search. Having something like ISFLOGMSG option to limit the results to ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

ONLY (O) Edit Primary Command

An ONLY function (exclude all lines except those meeting the search criteria) is a very common editing function. It is frequently one of the first edit macros developed when learning edit macros. Unfortunately, due to limitations with numbering mo...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

GRSTRACE LATCH NOLATCH ENQ NOENQ

Many times users of GRSTRACE want to report ENQ events only so a new parameter LATCH|NOLATCH with NOLATCH ideally being the Default would execute the function much faster. Perhaps for LATCH analysis ENQ|NOENQ with ENQ the ideal default would be eq...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Future consideration

Optimized ADRDSSU CPU usage for uncompressed Striped Datasets backup

WHEN CALLING ADRDSSU TO DUMP A non-compressed SEQUENTIAL DATASET TO TAPE THE AMOUNT OF CPU FOR PROCESSING A 16 STRIPE DATASET WITH OPT(4) IS APPROXIMATELY 500-700% OF THE CPU USED TO DUMP THE SAME DATA FROM A NON-STRIPED OR SINGLE STRIPED DATASET ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

RMM should not submit volume ejects when OAM is down or restarting

We were in the process of ejecting several hundred thousand VTS logical volumes on a system that is in the process of being decommissioned when we started getting some errors (CBR3717I & CBR3650I). In determining root cause we found out that a...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

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