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Provide clickable fields on the System Information Query Additional Actions panel

On the System Information Query Additional Actions panel, there are several different panels/tasks referenced. It would be helpful if these were hyperlinks, so the user could just click on those links instead of clicking on <OK>, then locati...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

RACF R_ticketserv callable service should allow PTKTDATA profiles qualified with group and/or userid

Currently the PTKTDATA profile provided to R_ticketserv is limited to a 1-8 characters application name. Extending this to allow profile names of the form application.group.user would allow more granularity to control who can use passickets for a ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Prevention of message lost 'GEO150I'

This request is to eliminate the problem that the user has encountered described in PMR=73176, APAR=OA55044. After re-sync of XRC, system message GEO150I was sometimes missing if there were no updates or small number of updates on the XRC. In this...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 2 Not under consideration

Create R_ADMIN (IRRSEQ00) Exit Point

We'd like an exit point create for the R_ADMIN (IRRSEQ00) callable services interface.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

IDC3009I rc30 rsn34 in moving VOLCAT

My customer encounters MSGADR497E as below while moving a VOLCAT.ADR497E (001)-CATLG(04), A CATALOG ERROR OCCURRED WHILE DEFINING USER CATALOG SYS1.VOLCAT.VGENERAL.T1406145.T3249100. RETURN CODE IS 030, REASON CODE IS EM-034 But IDC3009I rc30 rsn3...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Not under consideration

zHMC Password Encryption & Audit Report

We have a request from a corporate auditor to explain the security controls surrounding the passwords stored within the HMC. They have requested evidence that the passwords for the accounts (i.e. OPER, SYSPROG, etc) are encrypted on the hard drive...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Create a spreadsheet dur SMF 113

In an old version of RMF under the Windows application there is an IBM RMF Performance Management application. Under this application there was the HIS and CSV Reporting which analyzed the SMF 113. It seems that IBM with the new versions, IBM deci...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Not under consideration

Add field to SMF30 record for 0M/NOLIMIT Request

Add a field to the SMF30 record to reflect when a region request of 0M/NOLIMIT is specified.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Can I get a "B"? - AVGREC=B needed

Request to expand the use of AVGREC to include a pneumonic to represent a billion records.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 6 Not under consideration

Define shorter interval cycle for resource adjust in WLM policy

As shown in web site (WLM FAQ) and technical documents about z/OS, we understand that the interval of resource adjust in WLM policy is solid in each 10 seconds. This cycle is seems to be so long for the modernization of online transactions under C...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Not under consideration

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