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More informative messages on RACF error

Issuing the TSO command "racmap" is producing the following message in the TSO session: Abend 684000 hex occurred processing command 'RACMAP '.ISPD210 CMD abended - 'RACMAP' terminated abnormally. This abend is actually 2 codes 684 system abend an...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Install option to save execution output

Provide an OENU' like function in z/OSMF Software Install to store executed job output in a file of the customers choosing.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Better diagnosis of JES2 checkpoint performance issues

Following a recent incident triggered by an application change which caused 130'000 unintended emails to be sent out via a trusted mail server (CSMTP) instead of the usual 4'000, this high amount slowed down JES2 significantly and led to our batch...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

IFASMFDL DUMP start date time window

While switching from SMF dataset mode to logstream mode, we noticed that IFASMFDP (dataset mode) behaves differently than IFASMFDL (logstream) wrt the date/time windows:- IFASMFDP allows to dump records from start date "-1"/time "xx:xx" up until e...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Wild card/s for numeric, alpha characters

Currently there are only *(asterisk) and %(percent) symbols for wild carding DSN (dataset names) in the ACS routines. To optimize/simplify ACS routine coding, we need wild cards for numeric, alpha characters instead of just % for specific fixed po...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

Suppress system dump for Converter errors caused by user data open failure

The doc for IEC036I 002-B0 indicates it's almost certainly a user error. Because it appears in the SYSLOG as a JES ABEND it frightens our operators, and causes us sysprogs to stop what we're doing to see if JES2 is sick. Couldn't IEFVH1 be smart ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

HMC Security requires pattern matching to support our DevOps model

We need to give appropriate permission to our Linux LPARs to our DevOps community, we have dozens of different use cases with their own DevOps team. Separation of duty is critical, and elevated authority (such as PoR, STP/CTN etc) must be able to ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

RMF CF OVERVIEW Data shouldn't miss when one LPAR is down.

In our z/OS V2R5 environment, we observed that RMF MONITOR 3 CF OVERVIEW record couldn't be found which is empty. The Time gap is from 02/16/22 15.17.10 to 02/16/22 16.48.00.Our JB0 system ran into issue during this time range, but we don't think ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

Externalize the new counter for TCP connection out of order segments

Per IBM support: with Comm Server 2.5 the counter for TCP connection out of order segments is available at the individual TCP connection level. From IBM support it is not yet externalized or available for customer consumption. Currently the only i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Determine why User ID is REVOKED. Excessive Password Violations or Administrative Revoke

Note: It was suggested I open this RFE with RACF and zSecure. There will be 2 identical RFEs one for each product. There is no way to determine why a User ID is REVOKED. When an administrator looks at a User ID that is revoked, there is not anyway...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

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