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Enhance JES2 Symbol Replace in instream data related to blank processing

If I use JES2 symbol-replace in instream-Data there is special processing of blanks. Manual: "When symbols are substituted in in-stream data, the system attempts to maintain the position of non-blank characters. This is achieved by adding or remov...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Cleanup of uncataloged data sets with DFDSMSdss

DESCRIPTION:The Itau bank Storage support team sometimes needs to run a cleanup related to uncataloged data sets, this process consists of run a backup for the files first and after delete them from DASD to save disk space.The current design of AD...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Move CICS LSR Pools above the bar

This is in followup with RFE 114714 We would like to see the LSR pools moved above the bar for CICS. This will allow us to allocate more number of buffers which will reduce physical I/O
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Future consideration

Improved CF Task and z/OS Subchannel Queue Management

Today, queueing based on subchannel availability is all-or-nothing, for all structures, and any one CF structure can consume 100% of the available subchannels during a spike, causing queueing and delays for all CF structures•APAR OA41203 does not ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

DFHSM without TAPESECURITY(RACF) should not use SPECIAL Attribute

RACF SPECIAL is a critical security attribute.DFSMShsm modifies on Start its own ACEE to get this SPECIAL privilege. But Why?If HSM uses TAPESECURITY(RACF), then HSM has to create and delete RACF Profiles. But without this parameter, no RACF activ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit: Add new paramater UTF8 to SOURCE primary command

Since ISPF Edit supports UTF-8 encoding as well as ASCII the SOURCE primary command should have a new possible parameter-value UTF8 to switch to UTF-8 editing during the edit-session.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Need Log for Mails sent by JES2EDS

When we send job event notification mails with the JES2 NOTIFY JCL statement there is no evidence in the job log, the syslog/operlog or in a z/OSMF log about the sent mail.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Request for keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP

We would like a keepalive functionality to be added to LDAP that will give LDAP admins the ability to control how long an idle connection is kept open without being automatically closed by the server.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

improved monitoring: more messages and quicker

current monitoring does not show all errors, and sometimes shows errors that have been corrected. Monitoring should also be quicker - status of compute nodes should have enough priority to show problems in near-real-time.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

SSH Closing Down needs to clear all the forked client sessions

Hi Team I was very much surprised to know that there is no such command to clear all the forked client sessions when SSHD is being stopped for an IPL / Recycles and we need to wait for all these sessions to close down or get closed due to being id...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

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