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PFA_COMMON_STORAGE_USAGE Health check parms

At zOS 2.2, new parms e_low, e_med, and e_high result in exceptions based on severity and the number of minutes before the exception will occur for health check PFA_COMMON_STORAGE_USAGE. (E)SQA is designed to overflow into (E)CSA, so an exhaustion...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 7 Delivered

Communication Server IPFilter Logging Enhancement

The ability to only log IPFilter packets of connection handshakes and disconnects instead of every packet.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Communications Server IP to support SYSLOGD_CONFIG_FILE=DD:<DD-name>

SYSLOGD_CONFIG_FILE parameter is defined as SYSLOGD_CONFIG_FILE=DD:<DD-name> but not documented / supported. This is causing issues with our z/Secure CKFCOLL program as it doesn't recognise this value.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Parameter to force batch execution on same LPAR as JCL conversion

With z/OS 2.1, a job class has the option now of honoring the member systems of a scheduling environment to dictate where to run JCL conversion as well as execution. However, if this scheduling environment has multiple available member LPARs, JCL ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered

z Systems with multiple CPC books/drawers will automatically restart using health other book(s) when shudown by book failure.

New function we require is bellow: zSystems can automatically be restarted when zSystems shutdown caused from its book troubles.When zSystems shutdown caused from book troubles , it is not automatically restarted and cannot run applications.So we ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

Provide 'authorisation via LDAP' on HMC

In the current HMC code only authentication can be done using LDAP. Authorisation is managed in HMC code. We would like to have the possibility to add authorisation so that a request to authenticate a user on LDAP also verifies if that user is all...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Enhance LDAP Support in hmc

We want to be able to manage hmc users in specific groups and not as single users.Clarification based on the fact that:1) Users belonging to a group has the role and auhorization define for this group.2) if for example, user "xxxx" belongs to Grou...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Batch update for z/osmf rules

Batch view/update facility for z/osmf processing.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

More than 4 members in SSI cluster

Customer needs possibility to place more than 4 members into an SSI cluster. Customer wants to have more flexibility, therefore the max limit of members should be increased from 4 to at least 8.
about 9 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

Provide Job name/ Job number via CSSMTP exit

CSSMTP exit does not provide the JOBNAME and JOB NUMBER for the currently processing JES entry in the ICHRUTKN DSECT as presented to the exit.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

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