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ADRDSSU Dump: should not ignore migrated Dataset, at least give warning message for Migrated Dataset not included in DUMP

Hello Team,Our monthly maintenance process is lot dependent on ADRDSSU utility, where we take DUMP of target to Runtime and Runtime DUMP from one lpar to another using ADRDSSU. Last two months due to some SMS change some of our target libraries go...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Future consideration

Please develop an AMCE Client for z/OS

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On z/OS this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
5 months ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Not under consideration

Request a message informing if LLA is not managing the current LNKLST set as an entity (or that that state has changed from managing to not managing) since it is managing as an entity that allows avoiding some I/O to the dataset.

This will indicate that LNKLST as a whole entity is not being managed by the Library LookAside (LLA)This is when datasets are removed and added back to the LNKLST concatenation.Current error messages for LNKLST did not indicate any problems with L...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

Reset Shared Secret Key User-By-User when using LDAP Templates

It would be very helpfull to have the possibility to reset the Shared Secret Key for each user-by-user when using LDAP Template. So when somebody lost their TOTP, the HMC admin can force a reset Shared Secret key for only the user who lost the TOT...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

JES2 PERFDATA should be written as SMF records for improved usability

JES2 currently provides the results of collected performance statistics in the output of the $D PERFDATA command in many lines of $HASP660 sent to the console and consumable via review of syslog/operlog. The command provides several subscripts, $D...
7 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Use of a filtlist in the exclude statement

We would like to be able to use a filltlist in the exclude statement of another filllist. Often we have a long list of datasets that are allocated with custom constructs. So that the general filtlist does not unintentionally take effect, we also e...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

hide out IBM default FTPS and HTTPS servers in z/OSMF 'FTP Servers' plugin

Hello,it is not possible to delete or hide the list of IBM standard FTP Servers (e.g. for z/OSMF Incident Log plugin usage). The option for 'Remove' is greyed out for these IBM default FTP servers. I would prefer a 'Hide' option here to be able to...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Improve availability of Z/OS WLM application Environment in Sysplex with DB2 Data sharing

There is a design issue with the Z/OS WLM application Environment for Data sharing Systems. In Data Sharing Environment we noticed that WLM abend on one LPAR resulted in Sysplex wide Impact. The basic principle of Data Sharing is high availability...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Future consideration

Provide common APIs in support of PDSE Member Generations - Part 2

See https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3783 for part 1. Given that PDSE member generations are supported by some, and growing, IBM elements, it only seems reasonable to make it easy. Thus I'm rating this IDEA as...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Future consideration

Utilization information of the AI accelerator

Similar to CPACF there should be some monitoring function available to observe the physical utilization of the AI accelerator. CPACF offers at least a counter of instruction calls which is visible via SMF
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Functionality already exists

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