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Extend SERVAUTH SAF Name Length Beyond 8 Characters

Please look to extend SAF names beyond 8 characters in the SERVAUTH class.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

IDS3270 Enhancement command

Forward to Sam Reynold:Jose, > Is there a way that you can make the support function on the appl definition when changing/adding to have it done dynamically. We could probably do that, with the restriction that the monitoring status of any acti...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

HSM should verify if another function needs a tape migration if it is migrating a large dataset.

Customer have impact with a production job that was waiting for a recall data set. It took a long time because HSM was migrating a large dataset and the tape needed was part of the connect set.HSM verifies if another function needs the tape migrat...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

z/OS support for VM65930, increase length of VMCMD class resources in RACF

VM APAR VM65930 increased length of VMCMD class resources in RACF from 17 to 30 to cater for the longer profile needed to protect the XAUTOLOG <server> ON <rdev> command.The z/OS version of RACF does not support the longer profiles, ca...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Request to have a way to change HLQ of ABARS ARECOVER VERIFY CONFLICTdataset

Is it possible for the ARECOVER command option VERIFY to have a sub-option to specify a different HLQ than the default 'id' which is linked to the authorized user ID for DFSMShsm.On our system 'id.agname.CONFLICT.Dyyddd.Thhmmss' is always HSM.agna...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

PFA to monitor for above the bar storage

In late March, we experienced an MQ outage on our main production system. Analysis by IBM concluded that the cause was a leak in 64bit storage.Currently, PFA has a check for private storage below and above the line. It would be beneficial to us, a...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 0 Planned for future release

Health Check for USS mounts would benefit from ability to specify "expected deviation"

In a multi-member sysplex it isn't unusual for a shared BPXPRMxx member to attempt to mount a symbolically described ZFS at a mountpoint already occupied by a data set from another IPL set. This is flagged as a mount failure on the system attempti...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Centralize Stack Symbols names in zOSMF

Right now when you create STACK Variables in zOSMF you have to copy the exact name to each stack. Also it is difficult to change a stack variable name in the tool. It would be better if there was central table of names that you can add to and see ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Set slip and other diagnostic data capture parameter in z/OSMF

Sometimes the component or products which generating dump is not the root cause component, the dump for related component cannot be captured timely. The customer understands that nowadays it is still very hard to be smart enough to intelligently c...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

KEEPLU coding in PARMSGROUP and associated printer function

LUKEEP coded in PARMSGROUP allow to reconnect the same telnet client and still maintain the associated printer device.Test performed by customer to simulate a session drop closing/starting the LU display terminal from client results also in the as...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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