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I am using XVFB in the USS. I need to be able to issue HOST commands to limit hosts that can connect to XVFB.

This would let us control the Xvfb Server
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

AUTOIPL CHANGE for LPAR ACTIVATION

WE would like to have AUTOIPL processing incorporate a deactivate on activate of the lpar that is being REIPL. This should be and option in the DIAGXX member, like you now have for reconfigurable storage.This process is now been done by our BMCsof...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Planned for future release

CSSMTP: Spool file should be not be picked up if no target servers are available

When CSSMTP encounters a "EZD1820E CSSMTP NO TARGET SERVER IS CAPABLE OF RECEIVING MAIL AT THIS TIME" condition, it continues to pick up files from spool and put them in a "WAIT" queue for that specific TKID. This can cause some delay in processin...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Support additional special variables like ISFTLINE in secondary panels like JDS when using REXX as %-action character

Some special variables like ISFTLINE are not supported on (some?) secondary panels (like JDS) when using REXX as %-action-character. Eg. ISFTLINE could be used to get JOBNAME or JOBID in secondary panel like JDS. Alternatively, having the JOBNAME,...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Planned for future release

Provide a non-APF authorized way of obtaining the SMF log stream names

Please provide a non-APF authorized way of obtaining the SMF log stream names (all, or just the ones I am authorized to read is both fine).The purpose is to know which ones to open to get the complete last few hours of SMF. We then read the SMF lo...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Storage group: Total space Alert threshold% feature

With zOS 2.2, there is a new field added to storage group: Total Space Alert Threshold% which gives us alerting on console. I liked this feature, but when tested, seems the total space is being calculated for only ENABLED volumes and ignoring QUIN...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Planned for future release

PFI0813-1627 RACF group attribute non-connectable

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: tdoerkesSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0813-1627 RACF group attribute non-connectableHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: RecognizedC...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic HW activation support for LinuxONE III

JPMC has purchased three LinuxONE III machines to use for IDAA SSC. This will be part of their zOS IODF. They have asked if they would be able to perform dynamic activations on this machine like they could for their standalone coupling facilities.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 5 Future consideration

Retrieve/update Authorized LPARS that can send commands via BCPII

As service provider hosting lot of customers, defining the LPARs that can send BCPII command to an LPAR and retrieving this information are fastidious manual operations. Would be nice if we could perform it via a batch program
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Provide a method of predicting in advance the results of a DFSMSdss SPACEREL action

Provide a method by which it's possible to predict the result of a DFSMSdss SPACEREL command without actually performing the release, to allow it to be run against only those volumes that will give the best results.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

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