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Enable OCOPY to create and maintain ISPF statistics for PDS members

Currently, using OCOPY to update a PDS does not generate ISPF statistics, which would be useful for a number of reasons. FTP allows this now as long as the ISPFSTATS configuration statement is present.
6 months ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

z/OSMF SMF support

Based on an already closed z/OSMF RFE request (RFE ID: 47399) in 2014 I want to re-open a similar request to ask for SMF support again.We are in need of a central logging feature for actually ALL z/OSMF activities (e.g. Login-Logout, invoking plug...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Easier/quicker way to report CVE related PTF’s being applied to systems.

Goal: be able to quickly respond and prove to audits and adhoc management requests for ensuring CVE related z/OS fixes are applied in a timely manner. Description/Why/How: Currently, CVE information for z/OS and z related products are provided fil...
3 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Add systemname to syslog record when forwarded by -A parameter of syslogd

Starting with z/OS 3.1 and backported to z/OS V2R5 with APAR PH47666, it is possible to send syslog records to remote destinations by adding Parameter -A to syslogd. Compared to local syslog record, the systemname is missing in the remote target. ...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

System Recovery Boost SMF record to know how much CPU used in ZIIP instead of GCP

During System Recovery Boost (SRB) some work, that is not eligible for zIIP, is dispatched on zIIP's in case there isn’t sufficient standard CP capacity available. There is existing SMF to count how much there is zIIP eligible time spent on CP's, ...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Not under consideration

Allow to offload records at SMF LOGSTREAM, with OPTIONS(ARCHIVE) for specific SID or allow with OPTIONS(DUMP) with offload and delete for a specific SID.

As we already know, that IFASMFDL SMF offload utility with OPTIONS (ARCHIVE) does not allow us to offload with specific to a SYSID when more than 1 LPAR are connected to the same Log Stream and at the same time on other hand with the OPTIONS (DUMP...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS CreateParm to support masking for the path

The createparm path is currently a high-level-qualifier of one or more levels. It needs to be more granular such as hlq.*.ASM or hlq.*.EXEC as this makes more sense as all ASM would be FB 80 and EXEC would be either FB 80 or VB 255 depending on th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

LE AMODE 31/64 interoperability environment: retain original abend of secondary enclave

In our new application release we use the new capability to run AMODE 31 programs and AMODE 64 programs together in an application in the same address space. First we start a Java 17 JVM 64-bit environment via JZOS to run our Java-Framework that c...
4 months ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Changing Allocation Libraries Values during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change allocation dataset values via ServerPac while installing a new zos version. We used to do this trying to avoid space jcl problems while applying RSUs and PTF during the whol...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Allow changing a internal MIH value set by MODULE IOSVDPDR and IOSRRRSV

There are some Japanese banking customers who issue VARY dddd,OFFLINE,FORCE command when an I/O timeout occurs on a device which have a redundancy by software (ie. IMS OLDS). As a result, these devices for being no-response are separated out and a...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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