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Add USERID/JOBNAME to USS BPXO058I + BPXF274I msgs

This request is to add userid/jobname to the USS mount failure message (BPXF274I) and the output of D OMVS,MF (BPXO058I). Mount failure message in SYSLOG: BPXF274I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.ZFS.SOMEFS 031 FAILED TO MOUNT. RETURN CODE = 00000079, REASON COD...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

SSHD can not use ICSF calls for private key

We use SSHD for a lot of transmissions and with the ability of some users to elevate to super user we need to secure our SSHD RSA Private key outside of UNIX. We are currently migrating to using the Certificates option in the zOS_SSHD configuratio...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

Improve information in zFS statistics on z/OS

It is hard to use the zFS statistics because some key information is not available.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

To externally document return/reason codes in relocate section 443

Currently the authentication info in byte 1 of the relocate section 443 does not differentiate between when IDs with MFA fallback are logging in when MFA started task is down and when they are logging in from a bypassed application. Having a prope...
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Enhance RMF M3 filtering capability

Please provide a means in the RMF M3 enclave panel to filter on user id, similar to the existing capability to filter on service class.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

New verify option of DSS COPY for PDSE data integrity

Provide new verify option to ADRDSSU COPY function.Our customer encountered data page curruption of the copied PDSE. DSS copy ended RC=00 but some data pages of one PDSE "SYS1.SHASLNKE" were overlayed.Now our customer always verify PDSE using ISRS...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 10 Future consideration

Need VM relocation among z/VM compute nodes

To balance the workload among the compute nodes
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

NFS : add official support for UNC paths from Windows clients

we are using NFS on z/OS2.4. We finished a migration project from DFS to NFS because DFS is no longer supported in z/OS.2.4. Our clients are NFS version3 clients on Windows servers and workstations accessing z/OS NFS by using kerberos. Our Windows...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 0 Future consideration

Update zlsof -d command

Update the zlsof -d command to identify the blocksize in its output so the size of the locked or delete file can be accurately determined. Today, the zlsof -d displays the following:CommandPID UserFile System MountpointSizeInode/file The user cann...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Export/import  across clusters (KVM)

Export/import across clusters (KVM)
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

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