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EDGJNSCR in SYS1.SAMPLIB changes required

There are several errors in the EDGJNSCR samplib member. We ship several sample reporting jobs in SYS1.SAMPLIB, that are based on non-extended records but the job itself is does not specify this in its description. We should update the sample job ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

DFRMM : TSO CMD for large number of tapes

Last year I had update more then 150.000 volumes to set HOLD=YES.I could do this only with the TSO RMM Command CV [volid] HOLD.It was very slowly (50.000. volumes in 1h40min :-( ) I think it will be nice if we have a TSO RMM Command with the optio...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

IFASMFDL RC=8 when error in LOGSTREAM

When there is an error when reading the LOGSTREAM, so that it is not safe that all requested data is present, the return code should be 8 instead of 4 because RC=4 indicate only a warning.RC=8 indicate an error. In our case we got a MSG 'IFA819I E...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Allow the dynalloc text unit 8017 (Unix PATH) to be more than 255 characters long

Dynamic allocation limits the length of a Unix path name (for text unit 8017) to 255 characters, in spite of the fact that the text unit length field is 16 bits (max of 65535). This should be relaxed.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Future consideration

JES2 - no automatic Reconfiguration driven after Site Outage

After a planned SITE1 outage we saw that JES2 Reconfiguration was started driven by member "x", but just a few seconds later member "x" was QUIESCED as it was running in SITE1. Because of that we see that member "Y" has taken over with RECONFIGURA...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Add options for connecting to a decommissioned CPC

When a CPC has been removed (i.e. moving from z15 to z16), it stays in the network for a little while. When doing the HWILIST such as by Broadcom's BCPii feature, it gets this decommissoned CPC and tries to connect. Once it tries the RESTful inter...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Need method to repair "admin" ID

The issue is that when logged in as the admin user that was built from the provision workflow, and /home/admin file/directory permissions get changed, including .ssh to something that SSH doesnt like, causes subsequent SSH logins to fail. Since th...
5 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Create Alias for all datasets when installing new z/OS

Hi Last time I installed z/OS 2.5 all datasets was defined with an Alias but not this time with install of z/OS 3.1. the answer I got from case TS014843200 was: Its working as designed. Data sets which can be referenced using the volume, like PDSe...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Enhance CEEPIPI to reestablish lost condition handling environment

Language Environment Pre-Initialization Services are used to create a reusable runtime environment (RRE), run multiple run-time environments in one multi-tasking region, etc. CEEPIPI is the Language Environment version of the previous language-spe...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Native REST API for Administration and Reporting against RACF Databases

A native REST API for administration and reporting against RACF would be extremely helpful for automation and product flexibility. Example functions would be CRUD against user ID's/OMVS segments, CRUD for dataset/resource rules, and modifying grou...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration