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Setting shorter timeouts (e.g. 10th of seconds) in z/OS® client web enablement toolkit

The z/OS® client web enablement toolkit provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable traditional, native z/OS programs to participate in modern web services applications. In z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit you can use t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

TCPIP Sysplex Ditributor SERVERWLM low weights management

We have a large database ( 6 DB2 members, more than 10000 DB2 transactions per second) where DDF TCP traffic is balanced with VIPA SERVERWLM algorithm. In normal condition WLM weights are high enough to spread new sockets in a balanced way. When t...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

How to print the $HASP138 SPIN message written to CEEMSG to SYSLOG or JESMSGLG?

We split the CEEMSG DD of CICS with the following line:// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (UNALLOC, 10M)==> ceemsg output:08.38.16 S0310063 İHASP138 CEEMSG SPIN HAS OCCURRED BECAUSE OF LINE COUNT or we use "time":// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (U...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Display logging options in use for z/OSMF

With the 'F zosmfserver, D IZU' command only the logging options are displayed which z/OSMF has read from PARMLIB\ at startup.We need a way to display what logging options are effectively in actual use.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Test Submission Disregard

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/24/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test Submission Disregard
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Not under consideration

Test idea for SHARE 2

Please ignore this is a test
2 months ago in z/OS / sharetest 1 Under review

Extracting SMF in a single job step with a single pass of data

If I want to dump multiple different timeframes of data into an smf dataset I have to do it in multiple steps and mod'ing onto the output dataset For example if I want Type14 records from 2200 on 1st Jan to 06:00 on 3rd Jan I would have to do this...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ISPF SELECT PGM should be enhanced to support calling a 64 bit program

ISPF currently has no code to support calling a program in 64 bit mode. When a SELECT PGM is done the program is invoked using the LINK macro and Reg 1 is set to the parm if any is specified. AMODE64 requires using LINKX and setting the AMODE64PK=...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

RACF throttling logon attempts before revoking

Protecting users having a password/passphrase from denial of service attack by implementing a timeout value between the failed logon attempts.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Health check MSGBASED

On a GDPS Metro installation there is a GDPS health checker called GDPS_CHECK_XCF that cheks for the XCF CFRM MSGBASED protocol. It raises a high priority alert whenever the LPAR that does the MSGBASED role is a KP system. However when the situati...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

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