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Allow a second ATTLS rule for the inbound data connection, with SecondaryMap Off, when using RACF.

Allow a second ATTLS rule for the inbound data connection, with SecondaryMap Off, when using RACF. If using RACF, then using two different ATTLS rules for FTP is not supported and the FTP data connection would fail with ATTLS RC5023 which means: ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

Enhance performance of fseek on multi-volume FBS data sets.

Function fseek should offer the same performance on FBS data sets regardless of how many volumes they are stored on.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

RMF Data Portal - My View without using browser cookies

RMF is storing user data (view settings) in cookies. In many companies browsers are configured to delete cookies when the browser is closed. This is a security requirement which not can be changed by the individual user. In addition, stori...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

DFSMS - Total capacity required by DSS DUMP or COPY

Daily, we have a batch running to dump few datasets to flash volumes using ADRDSSU FR(REQ) while the datasets are closed by ONLINEs and later dump those data on flash volumes to Tape. The other day, we encountered flash volumes capacity wasnt suff...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

ability to start RMF dash boards at zOSMF startup

Currently RMF dash boards need to be started by a specific user after that user logs onto zOSMF. These dash boards are limited to use by only the user that starts them and can only go back in time (using retrieve historical data) a relatively smal...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Having DAA and SAA be aware of read-only clusters.

Customer's environment: 4_way HYDRA GRID.Customer has multiple composite libraries tied to the same storage group. So, SMS does balanced distribution of write tape I/O between those composite librarys into the same SMS storage group. The point her...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

&SUBSTR Pseudovariable

Changing the value of a variable in the middle of a string could be improved by allowing the use of &SUBSTR as a pseudovariable like can be done in PL/I. SET &OLDVAR = &STR(THIS RUN IS A LIVE RUN) So instead of using:&NEWVAR = &...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Enable PASSTICKET support for the FTP Client

There needs to be an option added to the FTP Client to enable the use of PASSTICKET as an authentication metric. Currently the only options that can be used with FTP Client is Password/MFA or X509 Certificate logon. The issue with password logon i...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Ability to overwrite workflow variables on "Start Workflow" REST API

We are starting our workflows through Jenkins using "Start workflow" REST API. From time to time it is required to modify some workflow variable on start. But the API does not allow to do that. Variable can be specified only on Workflow creation. ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Compression/Decompression Capabilities for CMS/TSO Pipelines

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00057071User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSCMSX96009Title: Compression/Decompression Capabilities for CMS/TSO PipelinesSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPO...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

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