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Improved support for SMB-related parms via DYNALLOC

We support customers who depend on the use of SMB and, specifically, SMBDFR=N. They have asked us to support continuous availability through the ability to detach & reattach certain VSAM files while the underlying platform (a started task) rem...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Future consideration

have syntax checker fo pagent

If I want to change pagent, I update the configuration file, and issue F pagent,refresh on the production pagent. If there are problems, I have to roll back and redo the changes. This is not production like behaviour. You can only have one pagent ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Would like to see messages IGGN307I and IEA712I made highlighted and non scrollable during IPL

It would prevent issues post IPL with missing LPA libraries
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Password Policy per user basis

Right now, we could set the following control globally. Inactive revoke, password minimum change interval Is it possible to set it down to the user level? There might be some use cases in a system that different user ID having different requiremen...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allowing first qualifyer masking in DATASET names

Many legacy naming conventions make it difficult to establish a simplified set of commands to define DATASETS. This is specially hard in the case of sysplexes with many systems so there are DATASETS that somehow identify the system in the first qu...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

ISR@PRIM - Session - Add OS Level

Add 'OS Level' when a user displays 'Session' information from the ISPF Menu (ISR@PRIM). With z/OS 2.1 and above, IBM has introduced/defined a new system symbolic to display the Operating System Level (&OSLEVEL) For example: Menu Utilities Com...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced.

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced to allow for a REGION statement match to indicate that no other REGION statements should be processed.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Allow greater flexibility in Certificate Name Filters

The Certificate Name Filters available under RACF today are very rigid in their matching process. As a short-hand, essentially one can consider the name filter as an exact search string match that the certificate subject must contain exactly. This...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

DFSMS read-only variable for disposition parameter

DFSMSrmm EXPDT retention method can exploit management classes to set expiration dates, can retain data sets based on catalog status, etc., but there are some retention settings that were previously implemented with the VRSEL retention method that...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Allow SMS to process DD DUMMY

We would like to eliminate all esoterics from HCD and thus allow SMS to be the sole source for esoterics. There is at least one circumstance where this is not a transparent change and that is when using the DUMMY parameter. For example if you have...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

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