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Change criteria for triggering IRA130E and SYSI_RESOURCE_CONTRAINED

z/OS Workload Manager (WLM): Message IRA130E and SYSI_RESOURCE_CONTRAINED flag can be triggered when there is still a large amount of HVCOMMON available. The amount of HVCOMMON should be taken into consideration. For example, the condition could b...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Future consideration

ANTRQST support for returning System Name for each Path Group ID

In our environment with 26 LPARs across 16 Sysplexes it can be challenging and time consuming to determine which LPAR a DASD device is online to. The DEVSERV command: DEVSERV QDASD,xxxxx,QHA is useful for one or two devices but can be cumbersome w...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

Optimized ADRDSSU CPU usage for uncompressed Striped Datasets backup

WHEN CALLING ADRDSSU TO DUMP A non-compressed SEQUENTIAL DATASET TO TAPE THE AMOUNT OF CPU FOR PROCESSING A 16 STRIPE DATASET WITH OPT(4) IS APPROXIMATELY 500-700% OF THE CPU USED TO DUMP THE SAME DATA FROM A NON-STRIPED OR SINGLE STRIPED DATASET ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Need Log for Mails sent by JES2EDS

When we send job event notification mails with the JES2 NOTIFY JCL statement there is no evidence in the job log, the syslog/operlog or in a z/OSMF log about the sent mail.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Add fields SUMECTR, SUMECTRE, SYSECTVC and SYSECEVC to z/OSMF Resource Monitoring

Adding this metrics to Resource Monitoring allows by one hand to have access to metrics that does exist in RMFIII, easier to configure than RMF UTIL and allows system programmers to see statistics related to DDF transactions when high performance ...
9 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Request for keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP

We would like a keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP that will give LDAP admins the ability to control how long an idle connection is kept open without being automatically closed by the server.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

NFS : add official support for UNC paths from Windows clients

we are using NFS on z/OS2.4. We finished a migration project from DFS to NFS because DFS is no longer supported in z/OS.2.4. Our clients are NFS version3 clients on Windows servers and workstations accessing z/OS NFS by using kerberos. Our Windows...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 0 Future consideration

SKRBKDC: Support for switching off Replay Detection

We've an application on OSCP. Our security policy says that from docker against z/OS Kerberos have to bee used for authentication. Actually, per server are multiple instances of docker running / per docker multiple threads. Each thread goes agains...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 2 Future consideration

Allow passphrases on a line mode logon to TSO

Currently passphrase support is enabled only for Full screen logon mode to TSO. Please enable passphrase support for line mode logon, (for customized IKJEFLD1 that switches of Full screen mode flag).
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Keep owner of .sh_history on shell initialization

On shell initialization the .sh_history in the home directory is recreated (with the previous content) and the owner is set to the current UID, that started the process. This leads to problems, if the user changed his UID (e.g. switched to UID=0) ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

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