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Operlog should write more than a single MDB to a logblock to allow connecting of multiple MDBS for long multi-line messages

OPERLOG currently only writes a single Message Data Block (MDB) to a logblock for the OPERLOG logstream. When attempting to display OPERLOG in hardcopy format, know applications like IEAMDBLG, SDSFLOG and ISFLOG read single logblocks containing si...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Any OSPROTECT processing should be offloaded on zIIP processor

When enabling the OSPROTECT=1 attirbute, any additional workload should not be executed on CP but on a zIIP processor
over 1 year ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Back reference SYSOUT DD JES data set

Kindly refer to PMR case number TS014415883 This will be useful when second step can back reference to the SYSPRINT from first step, done some filtering and produce the desire output in second step, whilst still able to see the actual output in fi...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Not under consideration

Make DAE - ADYSET00 possible to supress SYSUDUMP the same way as SYSMDUMP can be supressed today.

When we get problems in our Environment with a lot of SYSUDUMPs produced and filling up our SPOOL volumes. Then we would like to have the possibility that DAE - ADYSET00 can supress all our SYSUDUMP's. This can avoid that all our spool volumes to ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 6 Not under consideration

Provide user exit points for some commands in FTP server & client.

It would be beneficial for customers that use source code managers to provide user exit points at certain points in command processing. For example, by allowing a server LIST, RETR, or STOR command to access an API or insert a SUBSYS= value for a ...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

How can we detect all list of RACROUTE calls with LOG=NONE for all codes of IBM on OMVS? Is there any way to find out list of RACROUTE calls with LOG=NONE and fix them?

We have focused on why violations on IBM USS side sometimes are not logged . Our Security team have asked this question to support of our ESM (External Security Manager) product. They advised us to contact with you to fix those issues for the U...
7 months ago in z/OS / USS 3 Not under consideration

DSFS Enhance Createparm

The DSFS CreateParm is fine (to a point) but needs an option to Delete a created hlq.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

CAPS for JCL only and lower case for other statements

CAPS is on or off for a member. Since JCL statement is require to be in upper case only . The editor know about that. Change the CAPS function in EDIT so it keep JCL in upper case and other statement in lower case.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration