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    Suppress SDSF ULOG panel after z/OS V2.5

    SDSF ULOG display was changed by z/OS V2.5 following. <V2.4>The users who do not authorized READ access to resource ISFCMD.ODSP.ULOG.jesx could not display ULOG panel. <V2.5> The users became to display ULOG panel whether authorized or...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

    Messages to note which phase of automatic space management is running, such as extent reduction, expire data sets, etc..

    HSM executes many functions when automatic space management begins. The customer would like to see a message issued when HSM performs one of the individual functions of "PASS 1". It performs the following under "PASS 1".Pass 1 of DFSMShsm-managed ...
    19 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

    Add error message to the chgrp command if group has no gid

    I suggest adding an error message to the chgrp command if the group has no gid or no OMVS segment. <insert incomprehensible IBM error code> Group has no GID, command failed And another error message if the group has no OMVS segment <inser...
    5 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Under review

    Implement python3 support for BCPii

    As of today, BCPii v1 and v2 (HWIREST) offer callable services for REXX, C, and Assembler. However, making REST-like calls using REXX, C, or Assembler can be cumbersome due to the limited or overly complex support for essential functionalities suc...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 2 Under review

    An export&import functionality for HMC Information inside Activaiton Profiles

    I would like to suggest creating a functionality to transfer all the HMC LPAR and CEC information inside the "Customize/Delete activate profile" to an XML, zOS datasets or any other kind of format, making it easier to see the history of changes on...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Functionality already exists

    Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy structure's PREFLIST

    Currently the maximum CFs per each structure's PREFLIST parameter in a CFRM policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection...
    2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Under review

    z/OS resolver should comply with the requirement in RFC 1034 to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names

    RFC 1034 requires to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names. Based on a recent incident that we experienced, it seems that the z/OS resolver does not do this. We are requesting the z/OS resolver to comply wit...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    Create a command that will permit do a clean up and force the PORTNAME

    We have two environments that share the same OSA card, but they were codified with different PORTNAME, then when the first came up, a PORTNAME was defined, when the second came up, it don't work because it was using a different PORTNAME. The solut...
    11 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Submitted

    Need Protected ids to support passtickets

    To use passtickets the RACF id must NOT be protected. This makes those RACF ids vulnerable to password revocation denial of service attacks.
    21 days ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

    Extend the passphrase length to 128 bytes.

    This will be useful for even better security.
    3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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