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Add default symbols to system symbols

In IEASYMxx processing, HWNAME, LPARNAME and VMUSERID are available for filtering but they are not available as built-in system symbols. Please make these available for use as symbols within IEASYMxx processing, e.g. &LPARNAME(2:1) and as syst...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Future consideration

TCP/IP leaves the group EZBTCPCS with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin it again.

After a lack of ECSA in a member of a 4-way sysplex, TCP/IP leaves it with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin the XCF group again.Even when we have GLOBALCONFIG SYSPLEXMONITOR AUTOREJOIN options active and the problem that caused t...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 13 Not under consideration

zERT - Simple data import

With the current import UI for zERT one must specify all possible Datasets manually. If you have many Datasets it is very cumbersome to add all of them. Allow generic naming's to import for example.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Future consideration

Allow DFSORT to run on zIIP

Enable EXCP access method for DFSORT and allow CPU processing for DFSORT steps to run on zIIP engines.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

RRS notification that there are a number of stale RM entries in its RM data logstream

Once a Resource Manager has registered to RRS, it's RM name persists in the RRS RM Data logstream. If an exploiter no longer uses that RM name, or if that exploiter is no longer active, the RM name entry will remain in the logstream unless explici...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

Healthcheck XCF_CDS_SPOF should be customizable via Healthcheck framework

The check IBMXCF,XCF_CDS_SPOF checks once every hour for single points of failure in CDS configuration. It also tells you once every hour, if you bought a machine with only one CPU drawer, that this indicates a SPOF. There is an option to ignore t...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine

DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine. This is useful in a RACF environment using sitewide SECLABELs for mandatory access control. The commands affected would be DIRM ADD. An additional operand of SECLAB...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance message IFA016I with the root cause

There are numerous reasons a SMF dump program IFASMFDP USER exit might not be available, but the IFA016I message is a catch-all / generic message that does not provide any useful information (outside of an abend issue) which the user can use to di...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Improve the ISPF performance when listing/accessing a USS directory with a lot of files

The list or access to a USS directory containing a lot of files consumes a huge amount of CPU. The same CPU sonsumption is observed in Java programs accessing the directory
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Not under consideration

BPXF029E return codes for failed ROOT mount when ZFS is not initialized

Recently, we were supposed to remove/comment the FILESYSTYPE TYPE(HFS) statement in our BPXPRMxx, but instead we made the following mistake: FILESYSTYPE TYPE(ZFS) /* Filesystem type ZFS */ ENTRYPOINT(GFUAINIT) /* Entrypoint for defining ZFS */ /* ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

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