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NPIV support in HCD and IOCP

The NPIV setting of an FCP channel would be better driven from IOCP. In this way, a customer would eliminate a step in configuring FCP channels if NPIV were desired. Hard to imagine that a customer would have two different settings for an FCP chan...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Not under consideration

SNA network mapping tool

As a z/OS network systems programmer I am sometimes involved in new projects where I have only minimal info regarding design of the customer's network. If I want to understand it then I need to manually scan the network and create appropriate netw...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enable SFTP transfer as well for zOSMF CA

We would like to se an enhancement to zOSMF CA to add the ability choose between FTPS or SFTP.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

SYSPLEX Autonomics detects on IPL that EZBDVIPA Structure is not available

We need Sysplex Autonomics to add the ability to see if the EZBDVIPA structure is available since we use SWSA support extensively.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zERT

z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT), consider to implement zERT in previous z/OS releasei.e. V2R2 z/OS Communications Server
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Greater than 256 LCUs per channel

We are currently using exactly 256 LCUs on some of our channels, which is the limit according to HCD when building IODFs and also according to those at IBM we've spoken to on the subject. Our ongoing adoption of MzGMM with a Flashcopy has added mo...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Not under consideration

JSEC support for General Resources Admin

Add general resource administration capability to JSec java routines.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

CSSMTP Error Reports Exceeded maximum errors(5) allowed

Could we play increase the 'Exceed maximum errors(5) allowed' message in regards to JES Unknown commands?
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Perform recovery for IO ABEND during read datasets through XL C/C++ read functions

If there are any members missed in a concatenation in JCL which start a C program may read data from the concatenated datasets, DFSMS would raise an S737-24 ABEND during read. LE should add recovery mechanism during reading and return errors to ap...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Missing IZU= statement from IEASYSxx; System should attempt to read IZUPRM00 member if present.

In V2R3 the system will attempt to automatically start the z/OSMF server. If a site shares the IEASYSxx member across multiple systems running different releases, and needs to disable the auto start feature this could cause IPL issues with down le...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

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