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ADD HEALTH CHECKER FOR IOS RECOVERY

There are IECIOSxx settings that would be helpful for reducing the recovery time of Channel Path errors.However, unless you are aware of them, they do no good. there are 100's of parameter settings and as IBM discovers best practices, adding IBM H...
9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

During zOSMF upgrade of zOS add the ability to connect Old Usercat to New Mastercat

For as long as Serverpac has been available (and maybe even before) when doing a zOS upgrade I create a New Master catalog and connect an old User Catalog to it which contains datasets that start with SYSINST in it. SYSINST is used for Serverpac d...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

zOSMF - Workflow "History" Export/Extraction

Given the Auditing requirement "Auditors" like to have evidence of workflow execution and "History Tab" export function can assist in this direction. Therefore an enhancement is required in z/OSMF Workflow history tab for export.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Need Log for Mails sent by JES2EDS

When we send job event notification mails with the JES2 NOTIFY JCL statement there is no evidence in the job log, the syslog/operlog or in a z/OSMF log about the sent mail.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Add USERID/JOBNAME to USS BPXO058I + BPXF274I msgs

This request is to add userid/jobname to the USS mount failure message (BPXF274I) and the output of D OMVS,MF (BPXO058I). Mount failure message in SYSLOG: BPXF274I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.ZFS.SOMEFS 031 FAILED TO MOUNT. RETURN CODE = 00000079, REASON COD...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Change criteria for triggering IRA130E and SYSI_RESOURCE_CONTRAINED

z/OS Workload Manager (WLM): Message IRA130E and SYSI_RESOURCE_CONTRAINED flag can be triggered when there is still a large amount of HVCOMMON available. The amount of HVCOMMON should be taken into consideration. For example, the condition could b...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Future consideration

Ability to utilize an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to transfer data to an S3 bucket

Our company has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that requires us to use roles instead of IDs to access AWS. After meeting with Andrew Wilt from IBM, it was suggested we open this new Idea as this is not currently supported under DFS...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

LE Callable Service for RegEx

RegEx is a basic service to validate that a string is a regular expression. It's been implemented in Java, C, C#, perl, and many others. It's used in ISPF. It even has a Wikipedia entry. It's not available in COBOL. Take the best implementation, e...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Request for keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP

We would like a keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP that will give LDAP admins the ability to control how long an idle connection is kept open without being automatically closed by the server.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

Provide support function for coordinating out-of-band access to data sets

IBM provides a function called "zdsfs" for Linux on z Systems that can be used to directly read certain types of z/OS data sets located on dedicated DASDs shared between z/OS and Linux LPARs. As this access currently occurs without explicit coordi...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Not under consideration

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