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Support NFS V4.1 in z/NFS client

At the moment we are looking for solutions to get rid of the DFS/SMB-server on our z/OS mainframe environment.We tried using the z/OS NFS Client software to connect to the Microsoft NFS Server on a Windows Server installation,however we ran into p...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 3 Future consideration

Change DEFRAG TYPRUN=NORUN into separate ADRDSSU command

Resubmitting MVSS14002; MVSS Top "xx" List The ADRDSSU DEFRAG command with PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' is a very handy way to produce a VTOC extents report, similar to the old DISKMAP program on the CBT tape. However, if you forget to specify the correct ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Not under consideration

Fail allocation of DASD datasets with BLKSIZE/CISIZE > 32760

Allocation of disk dataset with a blocksize or VSAM CISIZE greater than 32760 should fail at allocation time, rather than at OPEN time.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

SURROGAT with JESINPUT and NODES

We have a requirement to submit a job from zVM, comes across using the NODES class, and then use SURROGAT with WHEN(JESINPUT). This doesn't work
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Configuration Assistant Backing Store Utilities

We have split our zOSMF Configuration Assistant Backing Stores into SYSPLex groupings. This was done due to the performance issues with a large backing store and the single use interface.With many backing stores we have lost a good deal of the usa...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide logging of interactive superuser activities

Our security policy requires that the use of "privileged utilities" which includes root access (uid=0 / superuser) must provide logging of the use of the utility. This includes logging what the user is doing while in superuser mode.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Customer needs to map up to one million shared mutex/shared condvar per shared memory segment under z/OS Unix.

Customer running an app that hit an internal limit (JRSMCMaxCntSeg 65535 decimal)) creating shared mutex and shared convars. Discussions with the customer indicate that there is a need to support one million of these type of structures. This will ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF console plugin showing locked status in console tab

If lock is pressed for the console. The locked status is only displayed at the overview tab but we would need such an information in the console tab preventing a timeout situation.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Override system wide LE STORAGE(,,0,) setting within FTP to avoid high cpu when transferring tape files

We recently entered a case TS009032448 at IBM in which we addressed a FTP high cpu issue. Transferring a file from disk took less then 1 cpu sec and when transferring the file from tape it consumed 36 cpu seconds. After thorough investigation it a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add filtering for the HMC/HMA hardware messages to drop the red-herrings

Right now, on a busy IPL night, we can miss legitimate error messages on the HMC because of the flurry of "logical partition mode events" and "disabled wait...0a2" messages. If we could filter out which messages hit the HMC hardware messages state...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration