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use milli-second time stamps in ISPF Gateway

To understand where ISPF Gateway spends most of its time while processing a request, we need a higher time-stamp resolution (milli-seconds is preferred) in the messages issued by ISPF Gateway.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

De-Mystifying SNMPv3 configuration and eliminating IOBSNMP

The configuration process for SNMPv3 is (to put it politely) utterly horrible. The snmpd.conf file contains what appears to be a random set of statements with no obvious way of correlating or ordering them. An addtional program - pwtokey - is requ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Row count not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL

Row count is not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL. This means that applications that dynamically issue TBSARG will have to loop through all rows, determine if the row is visible or not, counting the visible rows, and finally determine which row is curr...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Enable AUTOCVT to assume untagged files are ibm-1047

I have been porting several open source applications to USS using the -qascii option on the C/C++ compilers. This works wonderfully when auto conversion is also enabled. The one whole in the auto conversion feature is that it doesn't assume untagg...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Enhance granularity for CTRACE_DEFAULT_OR_MIN Health Check

Currently, the CTRACE_DEFAULT_OR_MIN Health Check is an "all or nothing" proposition--that is, there is no way to tell the Check that it is "OK" to be using non-default or "minimum" trace parameters for any one specific Component. So, if any one C...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Set MSR data set response time targets for automatic tiering with

Currently, automatic tiering is managed at the volume/extent level without knowledge or consideration of the service level objectives for the data sets on the volumes. When caching was introduced, the MSR objective was used to drive must cache/may...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Not under consideration

Allow HEAPZONES LE RTO to be set in CEEBXITA Assembler Exits

As documented in the z/OS Language Environment Programming Guide: You cannot set HEAPZONES at the system level, region level, or in the CEEBXITA assembler user exit interface. This RFE documents the need to allow HEAPZONES to be specified in CEEBX...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Allow the LIKE paramenter in JCL to use GDGs or PDS(E) for attributes

Currently to use LIKE in JCL has the following restrictions: DO NOT use LIKE= to model the characteristics of a PDS member coded in JCL, a GDG, or a temporary data set. Also, please note that the EXPDT or RETPD dates are NOT copied by LIKE. LIKE s...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Not under consideration

Simplify ADDUSER support with ALTER access to IRR.PASSWORD.RESET

As described in the PMR the installation is used to define new users without password and set an initial password later by support users having read access to FACILITY profile IRR.PASSWORD.RESET. Beginning with z/OS V2R2 such users are defined as ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 11 Not under consideration

Minimize risk of odd input in HMC settings

Defined Capacity or Group Capacity is changed on a regular basis. To minimize the risk of odd input, the new value should be checked against the old value.In case the difference is more than 50%, an appropriate warning should be displayed.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration