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Add policy export option (reconstruct JSON)

Policy sources, like all sources, can be lost over time. Providing an export feature provides two functions: recreating lost source, but it also provides a audit capability to see if the current source matches what is being used at this moment in ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Retain policy source with internal policy object, add to $DPOLICY information

Retaining the source data set & member information for a policy provides history for problem resolution and disaster recovery. It should be displayed on a $DPOLICY (could be a ,LONG) option.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

DIRMAINT CLONEDisk for mode and PSW

By using the clonedisk command I remark that the default mode and passwords are not reconducted from the source rdev. The default is "nothing" even if the source is R or RR. I don't see a easy way to do a cross reference to apply the good source m...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

MMAP function under z/OS USS should be able to use 64bit address space.

We have a proof of concept to run an off-the-shelf name indexer product under z/OS USS. This product is a native 64-bit Java 8 application that uses the Lucene indexer. The product functions under USS for small indexes. However, the call to mmap i...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Improved support for SMB-related parms via DYNALLOC

We support customers who depend on the use of SMB and, specifically, SMBDFR=N. They have asked us to support continuous availability through the ability to detach & reattach certain VSAM files while the underlying platform (a started task) rem...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Future consideration

DFSMS read-only variable for disposition parameter

DFSMSrmm EXPDT retention method can exploit management classes to set expiration dates, can retain data sets based on catalog status, etc., but there are some retention settings that were previously implemented with the VRSEL retention method that...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Enhance SNI client configuration

In a scenario where a single mainframe client task is talking outbound to a cloud service on a single listener for multiple services, there is no way to configure SNI in ATTLS to support this. The only current way is to split the client task into ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced.

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced to allow for a REGION statement match to indicate that no other REGION statements should be processed.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

CDA add new SMF records

Hi, To secure & traceability the solution we need to have new SMF records. Cloud endpoint (url) Object name (file name transfert) MVS RACF user that did the work Bytes received/written Clock time Jobname/Stepname Best regards,
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF utilPathSelector should return volume and other information for data sets

When using the z/OSMF utilPathSelector to select data sets, the return type of results is a string array containing a list of selected data set names only. This differs from the behaviour when using it to select files in zFS, which returns an arra...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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