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103 VOTE

RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

HWTJCREN: Support unnamed root arrays in JSON parser

JSON allows for unnamed arrays as root, e.g. [] is perfectly correct. However, the Web Enablement toolkit currently rejects the request to create an unnamed array as root with HWTJ_JCREN_ENTRYVALUETYPE_INV. It should accept the request without a n...
25 days ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Usage of certificate instead of userid/password for log data transfer

To improve the user management process on the Mainframe HMC we want to implement regular automated reviews of the users that do have access to the HMC including the user settings.Instead of using the WebAPI we are planning to regularly send the re...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration
155 VOTE

Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Enhanced monitoring of VSAM RLS activity using z/OSMF interface

Whenever there is a need to check SMSVSAM health for contention, locks response times and record queues one has to rely upon console commands usually routed to all the LPARs that run RLS workload in order to have a big picture of what is going on....
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

HCD: List which PCIe Functions are attached to an LPAR from „Partition List”

Today we are using OSA Express Cards on our native Linux on IBM zSystems LPARs for network access. To check if the shared cards are defined correct to the LPAR we use the “Partition List” within a CSS, (v) View attached channel paths.Now we also u...
4 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

DSFS support for GDGs

It would be very useful if DSFS would also support GDGs. We already exploit DSFS with ssh transfer, but missing GDG support is a road-blocker.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Enhance Kerberos/SKRBKDC limit to more than 2048 sockets

Currently, there is a hard coded limit of 2048 for the number of parallel open sockets for Kerberos / SKRBKDC (see Msg: EUVF04031E Limit of 2048 sockets exceeded). We're using Kerberos authentication for nearly all of our business transactions to ...
3 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

Enable access to input datasets for DSFS

Currently DSFS only supports output spool datasets. The addition of input spool datasets would be very helpful in providing a full user experience via the /dsfs/ sysout interface.
7 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Support X-IBM-Dsname-Encoding header when listing data sets and data set members

Some mainframe developers may use a different encoding when entering the name for a new data set or data set member. However, it seems that z/OSMF converts these names behind the scenes to use the IBM-1047 encoding, so characters in the name are c...
28 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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