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Set MSR data set response time targets for automatic tiering with

Currently, automatic tiering is managed at the volume/extent level without knowledge or consideration of the service level objectives for the data sets on the volumes. When caching was introduced, the MSR objective was used to drive must cache/may...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Allow the LIKE paramenter in JCL to use GDGs or PDS(E) for attributes

Currently to use LIKE in JCL has the following restrictions: DO NOT use LIKE= to model the characteristics of a PDS member coded in JCL, a GDG, or a temporary data set. Also, please note that the EXPDT or RETPD dates are NOT copied by LIKE. LIKE s...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Not under consideration

Enable AUTOCVT to assume untagged files are ibm-1047

I have been porting several open source applications to USS using the -qascii option on the C/C++ compilers. This works wonderfully when auto conversion is also enabled. The one whole in the auto conversion feature is that it doesn't assume untagg...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Allow HEAPZONES LE RTO to be set in CEEBXITA Assembler Exits

As documented in the z/OS Language Environment Programming Guide: You cannot set HEAPZONES at the system level, region level, or in the CEEBXITA assembler user exit interface. This RFE documents the need to allow HEAPZONES to be specified in CEEBX...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Collect Client Signature Algorithms with z/ERT

At the moment there is no way - besides collecting traces (AT-TLS, SystemSSL, Packettrace) to gather information about signature (hash) algorithms on TLS connections. We would like to use z/ERT to collect data from the client hello signature algor...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Simplify ADDUSER support with ALTER access to IRR.PASSWORD.RESET

As described in the PMR the installation is used to define new users without password and set an initial password later by support users having read access to FACILITY profile IRR.PASSWORD.RESET. Beginning with z/OS V2R2 such users are defined as ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 11 Not under consideration

OSA SF on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S needed

Starting with OSA-Express 5S Adapters OSA S/F functionality has moved from z/OS to Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element (SE). We ask you to continue OSA/SF Support on z/OS for OSA-Express 5S and the following Cards.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the moddvipa utility to work with (virtual) hostnames.

The z/OS Communication Server utility"moddvipa" works only with IP's. It should be enhanced to also accept a real or virtual hostname to be independent from the IP which is assigned to the hostname.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

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