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Enhance diagnosis by providing dump format of routine storage address when interpreting BPNPCNUM when running zACS

Enhance the output of the two BPNGPCN and BPNGSVCN programs that are run for zACS - Authorized Code Scanner: provide a short dump of the storage around the storage address identified for the PC and/or SVC entry. Perhaps something like plus/minus 1...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner 2 Delivered

Early warning alert indicating this BCPii caching issue

BCPii caching issue early warning alert. Also, is there any possibility of having the SE auto reboot (or be self-correcting) for the BCPii cache issue as it does for the VPD issue?
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

z/OSMF Rest Files - Custom Account Code

Please, make it possible to pass the desired account code when calling the rest api.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

5-digit device numbers support needed because of MSS support for GDPS MTM environments

5-digit device numbers support needed because of non-sufficient MSS support for GDPS MTMM environments.
over 8 years ago in z/VM 4 Delivered

zHW - HMC/Support Element (SE) Amendments

It be useful to have view access to the following options on the HMC: - View LPAR Controls- View LPAR Group Controls Under the audit and log management option it is not possible to include user info. Is it possible that this info can be added so t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

A request for zEDC documents

We are considering the installation of zEDC in our customer's environment. Our customer asked us how zEDC work when data compression requests exceed the capability of zEDC cards installed. We started investigation, but there was no document descri...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

REST API for registration of portable package in z/OSMF

I have a portable package available in USS and I would like to register this package via API in z/OSMF.I want to eliminate all UI interaction with z/OSMF to be able to automate provisioning of CA Products.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

Add parmlib support to enforce DSN RACHECK when IGNORE processing is requested

Currently when the end user specifies IGNORE processing the dataset name check is bypassed. DFSMSrmm should introduce a parmlib parameter to enforce the dataset name check even when IGNORE processing is requested. This would allow better security ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

CSSMTP should allow SYSOUT class specification for error reports

When CSSMTP detects an invalid SPPOL file, it can optionally generate a report that describes the error(s). This is accomplished by using the Report statement in the CSSMTP configuration file. Unfortunately, when setting the Report statement to SY...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

GDKUTIL setup exec SYS1.SAXREXEC(GDKAUTHP) Cloud Provider List should not always be empty if ~/gdk/providers exists

The developers of this utility have asked me to open an RFE for this change. See IBM case TS010292335 where I note that: Doc for GDKUTIL mentions that the following dirs should be created as follows in case local customization is needed: mkdir ~/g...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

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