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CEC degradation is not a major alert

When there is a CEC refrigeration problem, the CEC protects itself reducing processor speed to decrease power consumption and heat generation. The hardware alert generated is not considered a critical condition by IBM service and is not tacked int...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Request to add timeout functionality to synchronous binds

Our client would like to put a timeout parameter in on the z/OS client side and are trying to understand if that's possible. They are using GLD.SGLDHDRC(LDAP) to compile their C routine and are wondering if there is anything equivalent to the LDAP...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Enhance 119 subytype 70 and 3 to include jobname information

I would like to see a field added to the 119 subtype 70 and 3 SMF records so that the jobname can be captured. Jobname information is critical when remediating unencrypted FTP's for PCI.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Granularity for IDS policy

The PMR 94259082000 was opened when it was discovered that enabling IDS caused reporting of malformed packets that were discarded. While the policy was only set to report only mode, the message IDs that we were seeing in the logs were related to w...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker for VTAM Startups (ATCSTRxx and ATCCONxx)

I often thought it would be good if commands such as the ones listed below existed to weed out any problems that might occur during IPL time when VTAM starts up. Finding out about a syntax error or missing member from VTAM's startup config lists a...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add MVS system symbolic support to FTP.DATA

Please consider adding MVS system symbolic support to FTP.DATA.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Create an easy interface to send commands from MVS RACF to z/VM RACF

I would like a handy interface to help keep z/VM RACF databases in sync with my z/OS RACF databases. My initial thought was why not just have z/VM RACF support RRSF? A conversation with Bruce Wells helped me understand why that would be easier sai...
about 8 years ago in z/VM 2 Functionality already exists

Provide a less FORCEful command to deallocate PFIDs.

We recently had an issue with zEDC, see TS004212422, where we needed to deallocate and allocate a PFID from use. As documented in sg24-8259, we had to use CF PFID(xxxx),OFFLINE,FORCE to deallocate the PFID. In my 40 year career, commands with FORC...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Add Support for RFC 3522 - Unnecessary Loss Recovery

The Eifel detection algorithm (RFC 3522) allows a TCP sender to detect a posteriori whether it has entered loss recovery unnecessarily.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

System symbolic support for EZABROWS to allow for system name support

Syslogd syslog.conf supports system symbolics when defining the files for syslogd to write to. EZABROWS should also support system symbolics when reading the syslog.conf. This would allow one syslog.conf file to be used in the sysplex and have EZA...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration