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Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
10 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

Automate HSM RECYCLE and EXPIREBV commands by ARCCMDxx

For maintenance purposes, it would be very functional to have the possibility of scheduling an automatic window in ARCCMDxx to execute RECYCLE / EXPIREBV commands on specific days and times. This would remove the need to run batch jobs to execute ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review
155 VOTE

Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration
103 VOTE

RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

Signed SMF Records - Improvement of the Validation Process with IFASMFDL

Currently one has to follow the below steps to activate and validate signed SMF records (According: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=records-setting-up-using-digitally-signed-smf).The basic steps to set up and use digitally signed SMF r...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Drop the requirements for VSAM RLS/Sysplex Structure

To make possible to use the new EzNoSQL database without a sysplex.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 2 Submitted

JES2EDS : add card SYSTCPD to specifiy stack affinity

Hello, Our TCPIP is the default stack and the RESOLVER has this definition. We would use JES2EDS on secondary stack TCPIPA. Because our z/OSMF uses stack TCPIPA. Usually we need to add a SYSTCPD DD on the proc to force the use of this specific fil...
28 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

Extend support for TR31 key blocks with key usage P0 and mode of use B to AES PINPROT keys

About 5 years ago, I requested that you add support for mode of use B on key usage P0 key blocks, for IPINENC and OPINENC DES keys. That request was implemented, controlled by ACPs, and we have been making use of it. But that support was not exten...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

DSFS support for GDGs

It would be very useful if DSFS would also support GDGs. We already exploit DSFS with ssh transfer, but missing GDG support is a road-blocker.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Resolving Persistent Fabric Monitor Exceptions

Following a valid fabric monitor exception additional exceptions are received highlighting DDB/Manufactured errors. These exceptions persist after the source of the exception is resolved until the check is deleted, and health checker is stopped an...
30 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Submitted

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