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Keep history of changes when changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF, although the person who submits the updates can view information about their changes from the View Text Contents panel, others don't know what changes they have made. So we want to keep the hist...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS 3.1 SDSF and "FS - File systems OMVS" MOUNTPARM Truncated to 57 chars.

The z/OS OMVS MOUNTPARM: parameter can be up to 1024 characters long. Suggestion: 1. If not possible for SDSF to return the complete MOUNTPARM value up to 1024 then please tell this in the: SDSF Help Text panel ( F1 Help Key) Help-Text MOUNTPARM !...
10 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Allow users to issue RACF commands directly through LDAP.

Please add a feature that allows SDBM users to issue a RACF command directly via LDAP. This feature would allow users to modify or remove TSO & CICS segments via LDAP
5 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

DSFS create command to allocate new z/OS dataset

The use of the dsfs createparm or extattr to define a prototype for new datasets is not intuitive. Suggest creating a dsfs makeds command to allocate a new ps or pds using appropriate attributes on the command. There would be no need for prototype...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

Increase maximum length of MVS Console commands

The MVS console does not accept commands longer than 126 characters.This can be a problem when issuing long commands (such as DUMP, SLIP, or GTF commands) from CLISTs or other automation scripts. Given that this occurrence is quite frequent, we sh...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

Reduce CPU consumption of IOS HyperSwap API address space for a large number of addresses

When executing a reload of the GDPS GEOPARM the IOSHSAPI ( IOS HyperSwap API address space ) consumes a lot of CPU in a short period of time when there is a high number of addresses under GDPS, causing some customer applications to slowdown and ha...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Fast Replication target volumes that have no UCB should be ignored

With FR the pool storage group(source) and the COPY POOL BACKUP storage group(target) must not contain predefined devices without UCB. Application data can grow very fast, so we use automated tasks that initialize new volumes. Unfortunatelly, when...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

DupAck - Input and Output Out-of-order packets

It was noticed an abnormal ammount of "Dup acks" in TCP connections. Since the two end points of those connections are inside a datacenter (no external links) it usually means there are lost packets.Some traces (SYSTCPDA and SYSTCPOT) were capture...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Improve the ISPF performance when listing/accessing a USS directory with a lot of files

The list or access to a USS directory containing a lot of files consumes a huge amount of CPU. The same CPU sonsumption is observed in Java programs accessing the directory
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Software update - HOLD ACTIONs

Provision to save HOLD ACTIONS arising from a software update to a software instance (preferrably zone wise) to a MVS dataset.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

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