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Incorporate Security and Integrity (SECINT) APAR and Corrective PTFs in ORDERSERVER CONTENT(RECOMMENDED)

To reduce the toil of downloading the SECINT HOLDDATA and ASSIGN files to then be manually received via SMP/E the data should be included in the SMP/E ORDERSERVER CONTENT(RECOMMENDED) so that it can be ingested as soon as it is available. This wil...
4 days ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Submitted

Resolving Persistent Fabric Monitor Exceptions

Following a valid fabric monitor exception additional exceptions are received highlighting DDB/Manufactured errors. These exceptions persist after the source of the exception is resolved until the check is deleted, and health checker is stopped an...
7 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Submitted

Provide consistent easy RCF link from all formats

Provide an easy way to submit reader comments, consistent between the HTML and PDF versions, with adequate instructions. Currently the PDF versions link to a documentation page that does not have an obvious link for reader comments.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Documentation 1 Submitted

zopen utilities as part of standard USS

Make the zopen utilties part of BCP. This way everybody will have it 'on their system' My suggestion is to put all 'that cool stuff' in /zopen There's nothing more to it to be honest ;) You might wanna start with a POC-trial-run in the next ADCD d...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Under review

LFAREA 2GB pages not supported

z/OS client running under z/VM requires to use large pages memory to run their DB2, Openshift, Splunk and other consumers applications. as an example; z/OS client is coded this way : LFAREA=(1M=16896,2G=(16,10))
24 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

Enable DSFS /txt support for datasets in ISPF PACK format

IBM ISPF users have been using the PACK option of ISPF Edit since it was introduced in 1983 to conserve disk space, and in some cases provide a minimal encryption of their data. With the introduction of DSFS with z/OS 2.5 and 3.1 shell users can n...
18 days ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

REFORMAT REFVTOC should NOT delete VTOC-INDEX prior to a reply 'U' to message ICK508A

Regarding message ICK508A, we understand that a VTOC-INDEX would be built when the reply is ‘U'. However, it is not appropriate to delete the existing VTOC-INDEX before a user answers the message ICK508A. We think that ICKDSF REFORMAT REFVTOC job ...
10 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 0 Submitted

DSFS: Automatic CCSID conversation for selected datasets/members

We'd love a enhancement in DSFS that it could do automatic conversation of datasets/members when they are used with DSFS. For example: dataset.name(member) -> Terminal emulator 1141 for Germany /dsfs/txt/dataset.name/member --> automatically...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Enhance SMS message IGD17279I to better describe file allocation error - the diagnostic code in the message (041A041D) is not useful.

Hello, we recently had an incident with non-VSAM allocation space problems on EAV volumes due to the Dataclass EATTR defaulting to 'blank'. We came across the following message and required IBM support to provide an explanation: IGD17279I 411 VOLU...
10 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Under review

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