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Customization of required jobs for DB2 RSU maintenances based on hold action

This will be useful for those who does quarterly RSU maintenances for DB2 for z/OS. Once the holdaction is ready, there should be a mechanism which can create the required jobs and customize based on the hold action. This can seek the required fie...
6 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Customer should not encounter additional software workload when enabling zHyperLink

Additional CPU software costs should not be experienced when enabling zHyperLink features. The customer should be given the option to convet zHyperLink I/O to FICON if the workload is not going to run on a z/IIP. This will allow the customer to en...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF notifications should support the use of HTTP - Proxy

We get the following error, when we try to use the z/OSMF - notifications - service: The connection to the host "https://ibm-zevent.mybluemix.net/messages" failed in push service "IBM Bluemix" . In our production environment it is not possible for...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

SA JES2 SPOOL monitor to detect unusual growth

In normal operation, JES2 spool can fill up and notification is received when we hit the JES2 warning level. The warning level we currently have set is 80% and we have SPOOLSHORT commands in-place to reduce this. However, what we do not have is vi...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

DFSMShsm FRRECOV enhancement to control FC relationship after FC background copy completion

With the current behavior of the FRRECOV CP(nn) processing in DS8K incremental FlashCopy environment, the FC relationship is withdrawn after FC background copy (BGC) completion. Therefore full volume copy is needed on next FRBACKUP CP(nn) incremen...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Create a new parameter for SFTP which prevents the replacement of a file if a new file with the same name is transferred to the targeted directory

If SFTP is used to transfer a file to a directory with a file of the same name, SFTP will overwrite the existing file. Some other implementations have a -n parameter, for noreplace, which prevents the server from overwriting the existing file. Som...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS createparm to add completion message

Currently the createparm command on a successful create will terminate with no messages. Please add a message about the successful completion including the particulars of the creation.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Clarify use of UID(0) and BPX.SUPERUSER for osnmpd

The z/OS server osnmpd (SNMP daemon) is documented as needing either UID(0) or to have read access to BPX.SUPERUSER in FACILITY class. Empirical evidence shows that it work satisfactorily with neither. Please clarify the security requirement for o...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow for no accounting information in z/OSMF

Hello, We are requesting for it to be possible to use z/OSMF functions (e.g. rest api's) without the need to define accounting info.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Enhance the IPSEC command to delete a shadow tunnel

We hit an issue where the main SWSA tunnel came down but one of the shadow tunnels remained active and thus caused our server on that host to become unresponsive. We had no way of removing the shadow tunnel to resume our workload on that LPAR and ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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