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DASD SHARED default YES in HCD dialog

Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
30 days ago in z/OS / HCD 2 Needs more information

Command to display how much full is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in given moment)

Dear IBM Team, there is now way how to find out how much occupied is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in DSLIST 3.4 it always shows 100 %, so this is not relevant). There is just warning message IFB080E once it is 90 % full and then message IFB081I once it is...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit Highlighting for awk

awk is a powerful scripting language for text manipulation in the USS arena. ISPF should support this language. All ISPF users would benefit from this enhancement.
5 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

Provide ACEE change correction capability

Currently ACEECHK capabilities in RACF detect unexpected changes to the ACEE control block and its associated control blocks (TOKEN, ACEX, etc.) and issue IRR421I messages showing what has been changed. Please provide an option to change the contr...
6 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Under review

DFSMSrmm VRSEL and EXPROC specify system id to only process volumes created on that system

Currently in a non fully shared catalog environment in a RMMPlex and CATSYNCH is not setup, and have a WHILECATLG=YES VRS assigned, if you were to run VRSEL on a system where the catalog is not available/not connected, catalog lookup SVC26 will no...
12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Convert RACF to UTF-8

It would be beneficial if RACF supported full UTF-8 natively, it would allow greater support for specialized characters in names and descriptions, it would also make communication with other systems much easier.
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

SDSF - Add SMF Logstream information - Show if Signed

Add to the new SDSF panel 'SMFL' two new columns RECSIGN and ARECSIGN reporting if the logstream is signed (like for compressed) and which token is used.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

SDSF - Add RACF Template RACF Information

Add to the SDSF panel 'RACF' two new columns that shows the installed and available RACF template version.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Under review

Log RACF keyring and certificate usage to enable proper validation and auditing

Determining whether a RACF keyring or any RACF certificate is still in use by an application (e.g., started task, batch job, etc.) is a very challenging task. Neither RACF nor other components like zERT generate SMF records that capture the usage ...
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration