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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.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 5 Delivered

zOSMF Job Output More Fields

Ability to display, sort, or filter job output based system or start time/date. Currently, only JOBNAME, Job ID, Status, Owner, Max-CC and Type are options.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 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...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Delivered

DFSMShsm for files exclude criteria in data set

Our current Spectrum Protect environment uses a standard set of criteria to use for all of the backups. The DFSMShsm BACKDS, HBACKDS, and hbackup commands need the ability to specify a file or data set containing the necessary Exclude criteria dur...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Delivered

Dataset Detail in Data Set List of Data Set and File Search

When you do a File List in 'Data Set and File Search' you get the name of the files and more column like mode, Owner/Group, Size, Modify Time. When you do a Data Set List in 'Data Set and File Search' you get the name and NOTHING else. Because I t...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Delivered

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

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

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path.

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path. Ticket : TS016454799
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Message GFSA728E should show causing userid

Message GFSA728E shows invalid mapping for a user through Kerberos authentication but not which userid it is.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Delivered

A 64 bit version of __demangle() is needed for Debug Tool to support Wyvern.

LE team already knows about this and what we need, but here are some details of what can go into the case:A 64 bit version of __demangle() is needed for Debug Tool to support Wyvern. This will possibly also affect FA and APA. __demangle is in the ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Delivered

HMC <-> Support Element Communication must comply with PCI DSS / security requirements

To be compliant with the current PCI DSS requirements, certain cipher suites and signature algorithm must be used for the encrypted communication between HMC and Support Element. In contrast to the Web Frontend communication it is not possible to ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

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