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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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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

Add LDAP configuration file option to customize activity log date format.

Activity log activity is written in the format Day Month Date Time Year as seen below: Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total operations started = 0 Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total operations completed = 0 Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total binds completed = 0...
12 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

zEDC Authorized Services Managing Module Dynamic Area and History Buffer + Update Documentation

While testing out zEDC authorized services running in synchronous mode on a z15, we noticed pairs of STORAGE OBTAINS/RELEASES surrounding each call to FPZ4ABC, leading to increased CPU time. After opening a PMR, it was revealed that these requests...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Enable Multi-VSwitch Link Aggregation for z12

Please provide MCL updates to allow z12 (EC and BC) to exploit Multi-VSwitch Link Aggregation on OSA4s and OSA5s (same hardware as z13
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 4 Not under consideration

Enhance zosmf SMP Features

I have tested SMP APPLY PTFS with zosmf gui. Basically it works, but there are some quirks 1) The "corrective" type of apply should present a list of all ptfs received and not applied yet so i can choose from a list If i want to apply all ptfs rec...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 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.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Improve error reporting/LOGREC records associated with OBTAIN failure

We recently experienced an issue that involved VTOC corruption which required a ZAP to fix the VTOC. When the error occurred and was reported, there were messages and a LOGREC record that identified the volume involved, but there was no way to kno...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 0 Future consideration

CDA plugin on Zosmf

We're using CDA (DHSMS) more and more to feed S3 Buckets that are managed by colleagues on OPEN teams who are less at ease with the z/OS world.They'd like to be able to use z/osmf to list the Buckets defined for a user and possibly enter the acces...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

RRSF: Password/passphrase re-synchronization

With the implementation of RRSF, it is possible to synchronize a user's password/passphrase between different RACF databases. Due to various technical reasons, sometimes a user's password/passphrase may get out of sync in such a RRSF environmen...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Copy and Paste Functionality of the output within z/OSMF should be in a readable format

When our Operations Team forward an Incident/Problem ticket to the second level support or any other team for further analysis, they put their findings, i.e. copy the required details and paste it in the ticket, so that second level support does n...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration