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Remove / prior to 4 digit UCB Addresses on Mount Command

The z/OS Mount command syntax requires a / prior to a 4 digit UCB. The time has come to eliminate this requirement.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Not under consideration

Automated intake of SMF data for zERT (zOSMF)

Currently SMF records are inserted per user interaction with the zERT Data-Interface. This has huge disadvantages: 1) Every SMF file has to be inserted by hand 2) The data will almost never be at "current level"For example: BMC Mainview takes in t...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

TCP/IP profile NETACCESS with hostname

TCP/IP PROFILE NETACCESS statements can only use ipv4_addr/num_mask_bits, ipv4_addr address_mask or ipv6_addr/prefixlength to identify a network, subnetwork or host. We also would like the ability to specify a hostname that can be related to whate...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF network configuration Assistant use cut/paste of multiple IP Addresses when creating Address Group in IPSEC policy

Ability to use notepad cut and paste to enter multiple ip addresses when creating an Address Group in ipsec policy gui interface of z/OSMF network configuration assistant.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Evicting a job and restarting should work as expected even when return codes of steps executed before eviction are tested.

When a batch job is evict and restarted, it no longer has access to the return codes of steps executed prior to the eviction. The requested enhancement is make this process work as expected, which is for the job to be able to continue correctly af...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF NCA: provide new options in older releases

Today, new network security parameters are made available in the Network Configuration Agent along with the new z/OS release. If the NCA is running in a production environment, these new network security parameters for the Policy Agent can only be...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Debug EZZ8309I. Command to display DVIPA counters ---> List address spaces and their current allocation of DVIPA resources.

To support the "EZZ8309I Too many VIPAS" message a command is required to display the DVIPA statistical counters as well as to list address spaces and their current consumption of DVIPA resources. This would be a useful problem determination aid a...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

testing please delete 2

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 04/04/2024 Submitter Name: Meredith Halperin Submitter Email: mhalperin@share.org Description: testing please delete
5 months ago in z/OS / sharetest 2 Not under consideration

Release Doug Nadel-written ISPF utilities to Github as open source

During Doug Nadel’s long and storied career at IBM ISPF, he wrote many useful little utilities. He also had posted some of them on his personal website. When he retired, he removed some of them for ethical reasons, as he felt that because he had w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

RLSENABLE to fail when no CF structures defined

By providing the required define parameters for RLS and specifying storage class that did not have the required CF structures defined. The catalog was defined successfully, and a MODIFY CATALOG,RLSENABLE(catalogName) was successful. An attempt to ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

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