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LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Request for enhancement to BPX1KIL/kill() to provide a specific return code for killing processes in zombie states

For the following scenario:- FOTS3214 cleanup_exit: kill(16777238): EDC5139I Operation not permitted.(errno2=0x0D100114) - Currently this is a unique timing window where the privsep child process is running without it's parent having a SIGCHLD han...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Make DAE - ADYSET00 possible to supress SYSUDUMP the same way as SYSMDUMP can be supressed today.

When we get problems in our Environment with a lot of SYSUDUMPs produced and filling up our SPOOL volumes. Then we would like to have the possibility that DAE - ADYSET00 can supress all our SYSUDUMP's. This can avoid that all our spool volumes to ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Enable SNMP subagents to support SNMPv3

I would like to eliminate as much unencrypted SNMP as possible. To do that it would help if the SNMP subagents (such as IOBSNMP, TCP/IP Subagent and OSPF Subagent) could be configured to work with SNMPv3 (preferably at AES128).
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 8 Future consideration

Encryption Facility must display the Key id used to decypher a message

When we receive an OpenPGP document (message), it is decypher by IBM Encryption Facility. Only two messages are displayed by the tool : CSD0779I Signature by key ID 7FCA32ED59C06F76 is valid.CSD0051I Command processing has completed successfully. ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

HSM FLB Message Suppression

Suppress generated error messages or route them with another routecode.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

APPC

During situations where IMS floods with transactions the flood control is active by default and IMS will take action if thresholds are reached. If the number of APPC requests that are queued in 64-bit storage exceeds 1,000,000. IMS stops all APPC ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_APPC 0 Future consideration

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 6 Not under consideration

Request to have su capability added to BPXBATCH

Native BPXBATCH su capability is required to execute system component installation scripts and is often requested for other reasons as well. Please enhance BPXBATCH to include native su capability.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Dual Control at zOS (for destructive activities)

Many System programmers and Administrators on zSystems have authority to delete data. Often they also have authority to Access DASD Subsystems(DS8*) or tape Subsystems (TS77/TS45). It would be good to have the possibility to allow destructive acti...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 1 Future consideration

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