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Reuse of address groups in zOSMF Configuration Assistant

As more and more policies can be managed by zOSMF Configuration Assistant it would be very beneficial if the address groups can be re-used in the policies to: Speed up creation of new Policies Prevent duplication of data Simplify Management of add...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Shared zFS (Not the Root) across sysplex

We would like to have the ability to define a zFS (but not the root) as shared for read/write across our sysplex systems. Note, that we want to share a folder other than root, so the following procedure is not applicable: Creating the sysplex root...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Delivered

Enhanced SETIOS Function to Perform Freeze

Hyperswap verifications with the new SETIOS-function work very well. But this works for Unplanned Hyperswaps only, not for a Freeze.It would be very helpful when a similar command is available for the verification on the Secondary DASD (e.g. "SETI...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 19 Delivered

Excessive CPU usage during HSM EXPIREBV/BDEL of USS file backups

HSM consumes unacceptable high amount of CPU time during EXPIREBV and BDEL processing
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 16 Delivered

Provide OpenShift Data Foundation support for zCX OCP.

zCX OCP needs a good native alternative for data persistence. OpenShift Data Foundation can supply this lack providing a native, resilient, and secure mechanism for data persistence, as same as provided in other platforms.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Delivered

convert more than just the IBM-1047 to UTF-8

We're really interested in DFSMS CDA and have a lot of use cases. However, more code pages need to be added to the CONVERT option. We need to have support for EBCDIC 278 <=> UTF-8.
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

z/OSMF Security Configuration Assistant

Security Configuration Assistant is a very friendly and handy product to check security settings once you have the base z/OSMF setup, however, for those who still do not have it completely setup it is impossible to use, so what I am proposing is t...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

zERT - Passphrase Support

zERT must support Passphrase for authentication and not only 8 char passwords.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

zERT - unneccessary Migration trouble 2.3 to 2.4 to 2.5

We were on z/OS 2.3 and have zERT Table Version 1.3.0 in use.After Migration to z/OS 2.4 the zERT-Plugin in z/OSMF tells wrong schema version.So i tried to run Migration Script IZUZNADG, which creates the new statements for getting correct DDL.But...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Provide a way to identify zCX address spaces

Customers would like to be able to identify address spaces as zCX running address spaces. Preferably they would like a field on an SDSF screen to say yes or no. Then they can sort of select based on that setting.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Delivered