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An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

Need an API to provide additional timer synchronization information (i.e. D ETR) for SDSF

SDSF needs an API to gather 'timing' information such as ETS ID, STRATUM 1 NODE, Preferred Time Server/Backup Time Server/Arbiter (output of D ETR command) to implement new fields/panels in SDSF. Description/use case: Customers can configure STP o...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Future consideration

Add Batch job name to report besides the default Userid

The current process for reporting on changes to PDS/PDSE members for any add, deletes, updates, changes will list only the userid. The client currently uses PDSMAN, and STOW option, and this report also list changes made by batch jobs. The batch j...
7 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Move ICSF cell pools above the bar

If a high enough burst of ATTLS requests comes in at once, ICSF cell pools can grow rapidly enough and fill CSF private storage. This results in ABEND878s and TCPIP leaving the sysplex group. At this point, an IPL is likely desired. Moving these c...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

CSSMTP Add Return-/Reason-Code to Message EZD1813I

When CSSMTP detects some error during the process of a SMTP Mail which prevents the transmission of the mail to the remote SMTP Server it issues message EZD1813I. This message is WTO issued and can be processed by a System-Automation component. Bu...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance active and status displays with acee userid

Please add to these displays a column with the ACEE Userid - I'm not sure where owner is coming from but we have started tasks that are started by a server address space under the started task userid and then change to a specific userid which is r...
7 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 4 Functionality already exists

Change vm.max_map_count on zCX Kernel

To allow running a cluster of ELK (ElasticSearch) containers in a zCX configuration with SWARM, it is necessary to adjust the vm.max_map_count parameter in /etc/sysctl.conf from 65530 to 262144 on zCX Linux system. Without this adjustment, when st...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Reset Shared Secret Key User-By-User when using LDAP Templates

It would be very helpfull to have the possibility to reset the Shared Secret Key for each user-by-user when using LDAP Template. So when somebody lost their TOTP, the HMC admin can force a reset Shared Secret key for only the user who lost the TOT...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Need job submitter userid in memory resident location

To obtain the job submitter of a job requires disk i/o to get the JCTTOKEN out of the JCT for the job and then use RACROUTE REQUEST=TOKENMAP against the JCTTOKEN to convert the security token into human readable text that is mapped by the ICHRUTKN...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Function requirement - To support TRANSKEY+WRAPENH3 keyword in KGUP utility

PCI-PIN spec defined the key storage need to use key block format when store key tokens. IBM announced the WRAPENH3 format to comply PCI-PIN requirement which should support different ways to store key as WRAPENH3 format, including Key Generator U...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration