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TCPIP Sysplex Autonomics with CSM constrain

VTAM CSM FIXED Storage arise 80% CONSTRAIN situation due to a high demand of TCP workload with 4 OSA 10 Gb interfaces. But returns to a level under 80% immediately. This situation repeats more than 1000 times in 2 hours.TCPIP Sysplex Autonomics do...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism to view security environment of every address space in System.

Need utility to view security environment of address spaces. This should include as a MINIMUM the RACF user assigned to the address space.However, other items such as the readable items in the ACEE, atrributes (SPECIAL, OPERATIONS and so on), POE,...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

TCP/IP leaves the group EZBTCPCS with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin it again.

After a lack of ECSA in a member of a 4-way sysplex, TCP/IP leaves it with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin the XCF group again.Even when we have GLOBALCONFIG SYSPLEXMONITOR AUTOREJOIN options active and the problem that caused t...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 13 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit custom hilities

Allow ISPF EDIT users to create a customize scheme for highlighting lines and text within EDIT. This would include: - Comments (entire line or in-line) - Keywords (allow for up to 4 different colors) - Punctuations (comma, semi-colon, etc) - Block...
10 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

testing please delete 2

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 04/04/2024 Submitter Name: Meredith Halperin Submitter Email: mhalperin@share.org Description: testing please delete
3 months ago in z/OS / sharetest 2 Not under consideration

REXX Syntax should be available in JCL

JCL isn't going away - it's too deeply embedded, there are too many "dusty decks" that aren't feasible to convert, and too many tools that work with or assume it. So, while having Python and REXX for scripting is nice, they can't supersede JCL. Bu...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

List all SEGMENTS from LISTUSER or LISTGRP command

Using RACF Commands LISTUSER and LISTGRP there is no way to list all the segments on the User ID or Group without listing each segment name on the command. The request is to allow the use of ALL on the LISTUSER or LISTGRP command to list all segme...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

auditing of certificate usage

Provide a means of auditing usage of specific certificates.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

AMAPDUPL and meaningful error messages

Using AMAPDUPL return sometimes RC different of zero. In general this RC and messages are not meaningful or comprehensible or printed on the sysout. For exemple, if you want to have a TARGET_DSN with an £ character, the server return a bad request...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Adding a message in SPACEREL on spaced freed after releasing extents.

In preparation for Global Mirror and Thin Provisioned volumes in DS8950F Storage Manager we need to run SPACEREL on all available LPARS, so after running a few weeks we noticed that the messages are not really useful at determining freed space. Cu...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Not under consideration

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