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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

Enhance SERVAUTH EZB.PORTACCESS SAF checks to capture the name of the REAL program calling for the port in an 80 record & ICH408I message

When something is abusing the port finding the calling program is not always that easy. So I think it should be possible for z/OS Comm Server itself to record that informaiton somewhere in the type 80 record. It would also be beneficial to add it ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Message for when Join does not occur due to Moninterface issue

We had an issue where we were doing some maintenance on our Sandbox system where we had MONINTERFACE coded. The engineer dynamically deleted the interfaces and re added them, minus the Moninterface. When we realized that we weren’t in the TCPPLEX ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Sizing IXGBRWSE BUFFLEN / System Logger IXGBRWSE Performance Enhancement

RC08 RSN80F (IXGRSNCODEBADBUFSIZE) is returned by System Logger when the data result of an IXGBRWSE invocation is too large to fit into the buffer provided by the caller. Currently, the recommended method to determine the BUFFLEN necessary for an ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 2 Not under 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...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 3 Future consideration

Enhance ISITMGD to provide number of gens for PDSE V2 with member generations

The ISITMGD (IS IT ManaGeD) macro provides an indicator for PDSE V1 or V2, and an indicator if the PDSE V2 supports member generations, but does not provide the number of member generations. This interface should be enhanced to provide the number ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Planned for future release

Clarify use of UID(0) and BPX.SUPERUSER for osnmpd

The z/OS server osnmpd (SNMP daemon) is documented as needing either UID(0) or to have read access to BPX.SUPERUSER in FACILITY class. Empirical evidence shows that it work satisfactorily with neither. Please clarify the security requirement for o...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Health check IBMRRS,RRS_RMDOFFLOADSIZE false exception

Even after changing the logstream LS_SIZE and rebuild the structure, meaning new offload datasets will be created with the new size, the check still gives an exception incorrectly stating that "Multiple offload data sets" might be created on an of...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

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

TSO ALLOC Support for PDSE V2 Member Generations

With the introduction of PDSE V2 Libraries that support Memeber Genrations there is a need to have the ability to access the generations in the same way that members are accessed. The TSO ALLOC (Allocate) command is one important interface that ne...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / TSO 8 Future consideration