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Catalog Failures during Housekeeping should set a rc4

During EDGHSKP EXPROC processing when a call to uncatalog data sets on an expiring tape fails RMM issues message EDG2158I to the RMM STC log but continues processing without setting any warnings in the output of the Housekeeping job itself or in t...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Enhance SMF logstream IFASMFDL failure messages

Our SMF logstream dump job was failing with: IFA832I INVALID PARAMETER COMBINATION FOR ARCHIVE OPTION IFA845I DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION LSNAME = IFASMF.AQHO.DEFAULT FIRST LOGBLOCK RCD HDR = 00120000 1E02003B 44870121 162FC4E4 D4E80000 002C02C0 CURREN...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

REDO

Add support for ISPF EDIT command REDO. Sometimes we go too far using UNDO. It would be nice to have a REDO option.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Provide Dynamic Allocation Capability for PDSE Member Generations

Provide a Dynamic Allocation (SVC 99) capability to access a member generation.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Future consideration

Saving job output from Deployment Jobs in zOSMF Software Management

Currently, the zOSMF Deployment Jobs task has no capability to actually save the various job output(s) to a dataset.Can use the SDSF XDC command to capture the job output(s), which is a very manual process, but was wondering if it can all be drive...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

add z/NFS NFS version 4.1 support to properly replace z/SMB version 1

Currently we use z/SMB to mount z/OS file systems on our microsoft windows workstations.Because of a security hole in SMB V1 our security team wants to turn off the SMB V1 support on the workstations.Unfortunately zSMB is stabilized and will never...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 3 Future consideration

NOSETUID as a MOUNT default

We are a very large USS environment and in the interest of security would prefer to mount the vast majority of our filesystems using NOSETUID. We have thousands of mounts to maintain. The current mount default of SETUID requires specification of N...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Health check the completeness of volumes in a zOS HyperSwap configuration managed by CSM

The HyperSwap configuration should be checked that no PPRC enabled volume that should be in the configuration is missing, otherwise the integrity of data is not given in case a Swap occurs. It should be possible to define a list with exceptions of...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Allow a cloud multipart object via gdkwrite/gdkget apis to restart on a particular part

It would be useful to allow a program using GDK_EXIT_DATALOCATION (streaming send exit) to resume sending data for a multi-part object. For receiving cloud data I believe I can use range start and end to restart receiving data, but I didn't see an...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Future consideration

CDA Addressing 64 bytes

I call API from 64 bytes programs and there is some trouble when CDA calls in 31 bit adressing API WEB Toolkit.
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Future consideration