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NETSTAT STATS doc update and output enhancement

The output values (counter) for 'SEGMENTS SENT' and 'SEGMENTS RETRANSMITTED' of command 'D TCPIP,,NETSTAT,STATS' wrap after *4'294'967'295 to 0.*Need to be verified by IBM. This 'wrapping situation' happens in our environments about every 7 to 10 ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CP directory statements USER and IDENTITY should allow at least 12 character passwords

In case of z/VM a recovery, where RACF is uninitialized or unresponsive, RACF defers the LOGON authorisation decision to z/VM. Which means that an 8 character CP directory password is used to logon to z/VM. These passwords are expected to be saved...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Enable support of more than 100 characters passed as parameters to EZASNMPD

I discovered this problem when working with the SNMP agent, EZASNMPD. However I believe it to be more systemic than just EZASNMPD. If you provide more than 100 characters as parameters then it abends with CSV043I REQUESTED MODULE EZASNMPD NOT ACCE...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

SDSF XDC Panel Include DD name or DSID

Currently when using XDC to print output from a job in SDSF it only displays the JOBNAME and JOBNUMBER. This is fine if you are only using it once. However, if you have multiple XDC commands going on at one time, then when you hit ENTER, it is not...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Planned for future release

extended ip-address support for netaccess

Include the ip-address of the network resource that is being accessed to the ICH408I-netaccess-message and not just in the smf-audit-log. Everytime netaccess is denied for a user the ich408i message occurs.As administrator it's much easier to dete...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

enhance UUID@GEN to generate ITU compatible uuids

UUID@GEN data set is a member of hlq.SEZALOAD. (alias of member ezauidgn) currently TSO UUID@GEN or TSO ezauidgn generate for exampleuuid (458487b55160.02.c0.64.02.03.00.00.00)containing time_high := 458487b5time_low := 5160family := 02host := c06...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Underlying reason for save failure is written to the log but not displayed to the user

When saving a file/member for a workflow step (such as saving JCL for a workflow step), the underlying error is hidden from the user. The user must go to IZUG0.log to find the underlying reason. It would be good if the error dialog presented to th...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance TSO TELNET command to be able to pass parameter 'Srcip'

Allow source IP parameter to be used with the TSO TELNET command, or an equivalent command/service.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

OMVS Shell Logging to SYSLOGD

IBM should provide the ability to log messages to the active OMVS/USS syslogd. Currently logger, which is standard in UNIX for writing messages to syslogd, does not have this ability in z/OS but writes messages to the z/OS SYSLOG without an option...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

Create a new code page in order to support latest Spanish language changes; namely, using ll and ch as two different chars

We have found a weird behaviour using PL/I REGEX function. After opening a support case, IBM team become aware code page needs some updates. However, it may be easier to build a new one, picking those changes.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration