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Add ability to place comment in auditing of RACF commands

Would like capability to add a comment type keyword on any RACF commands and have that text written to SMF record "as is". Using a new keyword common to all RACF commands. Expected typical usage will be a reason text or tracking number.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Monitor the z/OS Language Environment Heap Usage

The usage/allocation of the LE Heap storage would affect the performance of the IBM CMOD product that is using it. In the reported case, when the LE Heap is not properly tuned, high CPU consumed by the CMOD address space is observed. Although the ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Improved usage reporting for PDSE Hiperspaces

Provide statistics on PDSE and PDSE1 Hiperpsace memory usage to help customers understand if they would benefit from additional meomory and if the data sets using the Hiperspaces are good candidates for caching. Currently, information is only prov...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Allow RLSE using standard ISPF options for dataset allocations

In the process of doing a PoC for zEDC, we were allocating datasets several different ways using different parameters. One of the things that we found out is that using several of the standard ISPF functions such as 3.3, when you allocate a datase...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

AUTOIPL CHANGE for LPAR ACTIVATION

WE would like to have AUTOIPL processing incorporate a deactivate on activate of the lpar that is being REIPL. This should be and option in the DIAGXX member, like you now have for reconfigurable storage.This process is now been done by our BMCsof...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Planned for future release

Modify IODF-Activate TEST to check for Devices in Hiperswap Policy

Please change the IODF Activate TEST option. so that devices in Hyperswap State are shown as error-message and an Activate would fail.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Retrieve/update Authorized LPARS that can send commands via BCPII

As service provider hosting lot of customers, defining the LPARs that can send BCPII command to an LPAR and retrieving this information are fastidious manual operations. Would be nice if we could perform it via a batch program
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

RACF search filters should not consider wildcards (*) as a character towards the 8 character limit

Often, when using products like LDAP, wildcard filters are used to return a number of matching entries. RACF user IDs have an 8 character limit so a client would expect that a search for *1234567* would work, since a * can be nothing or something ...
12 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide a non-APF authorized way of obtaining the SMF log stream names

Please provide a non-APF authorized way of obtaining the SMF log stream names (all, or just the ones I am authorized to read is both fine).The purpose is to know which ones to open to get the complete last few hours of SMF. We then read the SMF lo...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Storage group: Total space Alert threshold% feature

With zOS 2.2, there is a new field added to storage group: Total Space Alert Threshold% which gives us alerting on console. I liked this feature, but when tested, seems the total space is being calculated for only ENABLED volumes and ignoring QUIN...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Planned for future release

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