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Allow IP Address binding for PORTRANGE statements

Currently it is only possible to use IP Address binding on PORT statements and not PORTRANGE statements. For a number of application (eg. DB2) where one Server listens on multiple ports that should only be accessed over a particular IP Address, cu...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Create a workflow for zERT Provisioning - Database, RACF

At the moment, one has to customize members (IZUZNADT, IZUZNADI, IZUNASEC ) in SYS1.SAMPLIB to provision a database for zERT and grant access to zERT. My idea is to use a workflow which would allow to do the same but inside a z/OSMF workflow.
9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Assign WLM Service Classes to DFHSM Sub-tasks

We would like a way to assign different WLM service classes to DFHSM subtasks. Specifically we'd like to assign RECALLs to a high importance/velocity service class and MIGRATEs to a lower importance/velocity service class. Can this be done while t...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant import function

The z/OS AI Services workflow creates a flat file with the AT-TLS policy. We have no way of importing that file into z/OSMF NCA without entering all the information manually. We need the ability to import that file into z/OSMF NCA.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Tape volume output on UIM should contains DSNAME of dumped files

I use UIM exit to keep some information during a DFDSS DUMP function. During DUMP process, on UIM exit, i can have only information about the ddname and volser where the DUMP file created by dfdss resides. Now, with UIM exit there is no way to hav...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

Support multiple PDR volumes for redundancy

Currently there can only be one PDR volume for an SSI cluster. If the storage host where the PDR volume resides goes down or something happens to that volume, all the systems in the cluster go down. Even if there are other storage host and a z/VM ...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

JCL IF statement support for system symbols

If the JCL IF statement supports system symbols, the same JCL could be submitted on multiple systems/LPARs without modification, resulting in a different set of steps being executed based on the value of a system symbol. e.g. The following step wo...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Run RACF health checks only once per shared RACF database

Either RACF healthcheck routines should sort out, if the systems of the sysplex share the same RACF database, or there should be grouping parameter that can be specified for the check to "help" the routine to sort that out.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

zERT Network Analyzer improvements needed

In order for the zert tool to be useful, from a db2 perspective, we need the following: - A means to schedule loads so that someone does not manually have to log in to the tool and tell it to load the latest dataset of smf data. A batch job we cou...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Include REVOKE in FACILITY password reset authorities

Enhance the authority associated with FACILITY resource IRR.PASSWORD.RESET and those prefixed IRR.PWRESET to allow users to REVOKE an ID within the existing scope of authority of these resources. These FACILITY resources allow users to RESUME and ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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