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JES2 Access enhancement for MSGCLASS, SYSOUT as already provided for JOBLCASS

We are using a user written exit to control usage of: SYSOUT JOBCLASS MSGCLASS OUTPUTCLASS Currently supported by RACF out of the Box is 'only' the JOBCLASS using Profiles: JES.JOBCLASS.* in CL(FACILITY)
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

RMM catsynch verify error listing

PGM=EDGHSKP,PARM='CATSYNCH,VERIFY' takes a SVC dump.Unfortunately, you have to find out why!The cause seem to be orphaned "rename in Progress" data sets.RMM message data set contains Information:EDG2237E CATALOG SEARCH INTERFACE REQUEST FAILED RET...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Planned for future release

Send TCP/IP reply traffic over the same interface

Provide a way to force the TCP/IP Stack to send reply traffic over the same interface that the request came in on.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

CLONE the master catalog to a alternate name, with no internal updates.

We would like the ability to STAGE changes for up coming IPLS ( days, sometimes weeks in advance). Of the 3 components RESVOL, PARMLIB and Master Catalog... only the Master Catalog is not able to be cloned ...aka staged for a future IPL. Currently...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

Remove or mitigate z/OS Connect IMS API Requester COBOL LE POSIX restrictions that prevent some use cases

This pertains to case TS016566172. We (IBM TEL) have seen use cases for IMS API Requester using COBOL where the LE prevents z/OS connect from working due to POSIX requirements and restrictions. POSIX(ON) in IMS can cause other non-z/OS Connect cal...
4 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Future consideration

multiple "F ANTAS000,..." consol commands have to be executed correctly w/o errors like "IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY"

multiple StateSave via "F ANTAS000,STATESAVE muuuu 0 N" consol commands have to be executed correctly w/o errors like "IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY"
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 3 Future consideration

IFASMFDL DUMP start date time window

While switching from SMF dataset mode to logstream mode, we noticed that IFASMFDP (dataset mode) behaves differently than IFASMFDL (logstream) wrt the date/time windows:- IFASMFDP allows to dump records from start date "-1"/time "xx:xx" up until e...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Uncatalog and Forceexpire incomplete residual datasets when a multivol-multidataset chain is broken by HSKP in RETAINBY(VOL) environment

If in a tape chain are present dataset with different retain date due to different VRS, and parmlib option is RETAINBY(VOL), it is possible to have chunks of an expired dataset in the first or last position of the retained tape, because PREVVOL or...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

ISMF Last Date/Time Modified field updated incorrectly

Although SMS SCDS does not contain any Scratch Threshold values, the Last Date/Time Modified field is updated when changing a Scratch Threshold value. My customer claims that the Last Date/Time Modified field shouldn't be updated if the SMS SCDS i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

zfsadm shrink should provide a means to automatically specify -size without running aggrinfo or calculating from fsinfo

zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. -size must be taken either from aggrinfo, or calculated from fsinfo, then manually added to the zfsadm shrink command. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Future consideration