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PAGENT Refresh/Update with specific configuration specification

Enable quick updates to policy without requiring automation to rename policy files. F PAGENT,UPDATE,POLICY=????????
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

When an enclave is quiesced from the ENC panel, document in the syslog what tasks and parent tasks are quiesced.

Today, if you quiesce an enclave, there is no auditing information injected into the syslog as to the tasks being quiesced. More importantly, it's parent task is not documented in the syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

Delay of zFS write with sync I/Os - z/OS 2.2

Applications are experiencing huge delays when zFS is performing a write with SYNC against large files, the frequency of SYNCs are low, and there are many concurrent tasks trying to perform operations on the same file.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

avoid WTOR ICH304D like WTOR ICH302D with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.

Following APAR OA63091 (with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.) issue of WTOR ICH302D "ICH302D REPLY Y TO ALLOW ANOTHER ATTEMPT OR N TO REVOKE USERID userid." can be avoided. I propose to extend this behav...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

A catalog entry for a VSAM data set with wrong catalog backwards reference in the VVR should not be deleted with RC50 RSN88

DELETE attemps of datasets with a wrong catalog in the VVR get rc50 rsn 88. The entry is deleted from the catalog, but not from the volume.This creates an inconsistency between catalog an volumecontent. The clients says it would have been better i...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Ensure ASCBEJST, ASCBSRBT are cleared after last job step.

This will keep residual values from being put into SMF 30.4 and 30.5 records.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Make MODDVIPA available via a console command

It was recommended recently that we use MODDVIPA to ensure that an IP address remains with the stack. //CDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-c XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* - At the end of the proc, add: //DDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-d XXX.X...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow clients to set default processing options for DFSMSdss operations using a parmlib member

DFSMSdss should be enhanced to allow clients to set default processing options for DFSMSdss operations using a parmlib member. For example, the ADMINISTRATOR could be one of the options to support the following use case described below..BTW, quite...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

IDS Attack Customization - More Granularity

I would like for more customization/granularity with IDS attack rules. Specifically I am requesting the ability to create custom attack rules for specific IP addresses/IP ranges. This would be especially useful for FLOOD rules.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

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