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PFI0813-1627 RACF group attribute non-connectable

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: tdoerkesSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0813-1627 RACF group attribute non-connectableHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: RecognizedC...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic HW activation support for LinuxONE III

JPMC has purchased three LinuxONE III machines to use for IDAA SSC. This will be part of their zOS IODF. They have asked if they would be able to perform dynamic activations on this machine like they could for their standalone coupling facilities.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future consideration

Add Limited Support Date to z/OSMF Software Management Product Information File (PIF)

Currently, the support date range is described by the following two dates in the z/OSMF Software Management Product Information File: GADate (support begin date)EOSDate (support end date) Some ISVs have an additional support tier e.g.: Full suppor...
almost 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Provide a method of predicting in advance the results of a DFSMSdss SPACEREL action

Provide a method by which it's possible to predict the result of a DFSMSdss SPACEREL command without actually performing the release, to allow it to be run against only those volumes that will give the best results.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

SMS Allocation rules prevents data set copies from restored volume backups

We perform full volume backups and restores from an MVS system. When the original SMS managed volume and the restored volume (using a different VOLSER) label are brought online to the same system where the original volumes data sets are also catal...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Future consideration

Please include the CPU Time Limit for a Job/Step in SMF Type 30

The CPU Time Limit in effect for a JobStep is not currently written to SMF Type30 at the end of the step. While a job is running this information is available in the Address Space Control Block (ASCBJSTL) and can be displayed or even modified by t...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

lightweight zosmf restfiles/ds option for faster minimal dataset list with attributes

Current X-IBM-Attributes options for the zosmf /restfiles/ds API enable retrieval of just the dataset names, dataset+volume, and a "base" option which returns all information consistent with ISPF 3.4. The base option can easily cause timeouts if t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer Performance Improvement

When importing 'large' SMF datasets with ~200m records, the zOSMF NCA Java reads all records to filter filter Type 119 records relevant. In sample this are around 2m records. This process runs for more than 4h (wasting CPU resources), which is ver...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Please provide C++17 support for the Cryptographic Coprocessor Custom Software Developer's Toolkit (CEX7S/4769)

C++ provides valuable features to the UDX developper in order to extend the standard IBM CCA functionality:- Guaranteed intialization of variables and objects during creation (constructor)- Guaranteed clean-up of variables while destroying the obj...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Planned for future release

Displaying configured cipher suites in configured order under SYSTEM DTCPARMS.

Specifying a preferred order of cipher suites under SYSTEM DTCPARMS is not the exact order that is displayed from z/VM systems. The 'ssla q status details' command list an order that is not configured. Even presenting the cipher suites order to ne...
about 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

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