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    Add a command to know who is using resource for a scheduling environment

    We use scheduling environment to schedule execution of job on LPAR who have resources available for the job. The job start on the good LPAR but have several steps. It happens sometimes that after the job start, one resource become unavailable so w...
    8 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

    Show the correct SCRATCH volume count in ISMF and DFSMSrmm

    Today we have a problem to show the SCRATCH volume count in the ISMF panel, because it does not matched the real available scratch volume count in the IBM VTS library manager data base. The problem is the "Delete Expired Volume Data setting". Is t...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

    Allow the option to enable Policy Based Routing for routed traffic

    In our company we have serveral different customer networks and different default gateways, to handle this we use Policy Based Routing (PBR). We want to provide zCX instances to those customers, but zCX is routed traffic, which currently is not su...
    6 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Allow user ID that authenticate with passticket to not have to set a password.

    Currently user ID that use passticket for authentication still have to set a password in RACF even if it is never used. This creates overhead managing a password and renewal of the password where non-expiry passwords are not permitted. This reques...
    10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    Improvement for z/OS Data Set File System (DSFS)

    For installations with a huge number of data sets DSFS should be improved.Currently the UNIX command "find" could lead to thousands of RACF errors for MVS data sets when the DSFS directory is in your search path.In particular DSFS have to do an op...
    8 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

    Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

    Enable access to input datasets for DSFS

    Currently DSFS only supports output spool datasets. The addition of input spool datasets would be very helpful in providing a full user experience via the /dsfs/ sysout interface.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

    RACF to use SYS1.RACFDB ( read only) and User.racfdb (R/W)

    I use zD&T( or zPDT) to provide my z/OS system. Every 6 months there is an updated version of ADCD (turn key z/OS solution) available with new catalog, and new RACF database etc. To migrate to this I have to find all the changes I made to my c...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

    zOSMF - Full High Availability (not only for REST)

    Current implementation of zOSMF does not allow for a full High-Availability setup, which contradicts the platforms design with highest availability, redundancy and data sharing.We suffer from zOSMF downtime required for maintenance of the hosting ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    DFSORT AI Engine

    Customer runs lots of DFSORT workload and often has to tune its parameters according to the input file characteristics , amount of memory available and other factors. This can be a cumbersome task, error prone and sometimes cause inefficient use o...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

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