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add the jobname to the jes2 notification email

The NOTIFY statement email received uses a subject line of "z/OS job event notification" which makes multiple emails all look the same for the most part. Why not add the jobname to the subject line?
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

Need a "select all data types" option when doing HMC backups

System: z Series HMC - Drivers 36, 41 and future.Actor: User needing new feature Description: "Save/Restore Customizable Console Data" is used to back up all customizable data types on each of our HMCs. We backup all data types and a manual select...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

NCA: Tailored include/obeyfile should not be limited to LRECL during provisioning

In the z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistance for Cloud configuration; you specify an include and obeyfile for every z/OS image. The 'general' default is a PDSE with FB LRECL 80. The same applied to the 'ezb_cloud_allocate_stack_pdse' workflow as...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Enhance HSM ARCCMDxx to use system symbols or permit a concatenation of ARCCMDxx members

This would allow for a customized startup of HSM based on system symbols. Production vs DR Test for example.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered

Adjust BPXPRM00 FILESYSTYPE for CINET to get a "clean" first IPL after a serverpac

I recently completed a z/OSMF serverpac install. I attempted the first IPL in the procedures and everything came up except TCPIP. TCPIP failed with the following message. EZZ4203I Z/OS UNIX - TCP/IP CONNECTION ERROR FOR TCPIP-BPX4SOC,00000003,FFFF...
6 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Add Azure Support for CDA

We would like support in z/OS 2.4 to transfer data to and from MS Azure file and blob storage.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 3 Delivered

Allow DIRMAINT to sense actual physical volume sizes when volumes are added to available disk pools

Any DIRMAINT user
about 2 years ago in z/VM 6 Delivered

Create health check for usercats not in VLF class IGGCAS

Usercatalogs should be defined to VLF class IGGCAS for best performance. A health check should be created to show any usercats that are not in the IGGCAS class for VLF.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 5 Delivered

Display Public Certificate in AT-TLS Trace

Many times when working with AT-TLS there are mismatched Certificate issues. Especially when you are the client. However even when you have the Tracing for ATTLS turned to 255 you can not extract the public certificate from the flow. 99% of the ti...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

DAE should include functionality to purge/discard dumps by a customizable duration of time.

DAE currently requires manual intervention to ensure dumps are no longer suppressed. It is not uncommon that problem scenarios can involve many of the same dump being produced within a very short duration of time (such as 10 minutes or 1 hr). In t...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Delivered

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