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IEFC001I Should include the nested level in it

Currently the IEFC001I messages looks like this IEFC001I PROCEDURE MYPROC WAS EXPANDED USING SYSTEM LIBRARY SYS1.PROCLIB
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Future consideration

DIRMAINT CLONEDisk for mode and PSW

By using the clonedisk command I remark that the default mode and passwords are not reconducted from the source rdev. The default is "nothing" even if the source is R or RR. I don't see a easy way to do a cross reference to apply the good source m...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Add INBOUND or OUTBOUND indicator in SERVAUTH Class NETACCESS Profile SMF Records

For SERVAUTH class NETACCESS profiles, please include information on whether the check was INBOUND or OUTBOUND in the LOGSTRING if possible.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

IZUPRMxx AUTOSTART function description is incomplete

The V2R3 z/OSMF Documentation describing the IZUPRMxx member in SYS1.PARMLIB ought to follow the same layout conventions found in the MVS Initialization Reference publication. It is also unclear from the documentation what the default behavior is ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Catalog TAKEDUMP command should include VLF asid

Used the "F CATALOG,TAKEDUMP" and "F CATALOG,RESTART" commands to generate the svcdump to diagnose the problem in the pmr. Later told that we should have also dumped the VLF asid so there is insufficient doc to diagnose the problem.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

CDA add new SMF records

Hi, To secure & traceability the solution we need to have new SMF records. Cloud endpoint (url) Object name (file name transfert) MVS RACF user that did the work Bytes received/written Clock time Jobname/Stepname Best regards,
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

LDAP Debug tracing should externalize negative SQL return codes

LDAP debug tracing does not externalize SQL error messages when using TDBM with DB2. This means that customers may need to recreate an issue twice, which may not be possible, in order to receive the SQL return code if the LDAP return code is not s...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Concatenating AUTOIPL members

We would like to be able to have DIAGnn members, that only contain MVS (in the AutoIPL policy). We'd like to have the ability to change the MVS address, but leave the existing SADMP information intact. For example DIAGAA contains: AUTOIPL SADMP(7D...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Forward zVM Data to zAware

Forward zVM logs to zAware
about 7 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Automattic inclusion of all CA certs to a keyring

In the case where you do not need a personal certificate on your keyring a Virtual keyrings works well. However if you have two way authentication the Virtual keyring is not useful in this case since it requires a personal certificate attached to ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

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