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Enhance Health Checker by including DB2 checks (IBM Development)

Enhance Health Checker by including DB2 checks (IBM Development)
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Not under consideration

Allow HEAPZONES LE RTO to be set in CEEBXITA Assembler Exits

As documented in the z/OS Language Environment Programming Guide: You cannot set HEAPZONES at the system level, region level, or in the CEEBXITA assembler user exit interface. This RFE documents the need to allow HEAPZONES to be specified in CEEBX...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Allow the LASTCOPY of Copypool backup to expire

Currently, DFHSM will not "EXPIRE" the last copy of a Copypool backup. It flags the tapes as EXPIRE but does not truly expire the tapes. Manual commands must be executed in order to truly expire the backup tapes of the last copy of a copypool.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

z/OS - WTO/WTOR add a No-Manipulate Parameter

Hello IBM, It is a critical requirement for products such as GDPS, that messages are seen by the product. This involves a significant amount of expertise and time to check z/OS, NetView and SA components to ensure that certain messages are not man...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Enable AUTOCVT to assume untagged files are ibm-1047

I have been porting several open source applications to USS using the -qascii option on the C/C++ compilers. This works wonderfully when auto conversion is also enabled. The one whole in the auto conversion feature is that it doesn't assume untagg...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Support for Link Aggregation/NIC teaming

With Link Aggregation, the multiple interfaces are aggregated together at a lower level to make them appear at the network layer as a single network interface. This is supported on all other platforms except z/OS.With CISCO ACI and if no OSPF impl...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IKED joblog

It would be immensely helpful in a troubleshooting situation to have timestamps in the job log of the IKE daemon.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add New Optional parameter to delete a userid with norule.

This rule is useful when someone try to delete a userid(ex- which support the dataset rule), but try to retain the rule( ex-dataset). this is useful if you have a dataset HLQ which is used by CICS region but you dont want to manage a userid as tha...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Make ICHRIX02 Dynamic exit or create new dynamic exit with same function

Submitted By: 3100012R4K #59Submitted Date: 2016-06-15, Submitted By: Cheryl Watson
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Minimize risk of odd input in HMC settings

Defined Capacity or Group Capacity is changed on a regular basis. To minimize the risk of odd input, the new value should be checked against the old value.In case the difference is more than 50%, an appropriate warning should be displayed.
about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

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