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zERT Long running reports - Next to Impossible in the current state of zERT

Hi zERT is mainly used to get a cryptographic picture of the systems we manage. That inherently means it is used to analyze the entire TCPIP traffic on the stacks. Now with this much data going in as the input and we in our shop make it a lean ext...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Distributed Identity Mapping Support for JWT Token Subject

As of today, when using JWT Token with RACF, the subject is documented to be required to be the RACF Userid. As such the RACF userid must be known to the creator of the JWT Token.RACF JWT support should be enhanced to allow to send a users X.500 D...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

System utilities should produce more parseable output

IBM system utility output can be unnecessarily verbose. Most utilities produce page numbers, multiple headings, etc. Quite often this is not useful and must be filtered out by programs or scripts before or during processing. It would be be very us...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 4 Future consideration

DFSMS RESTORE

Solve the dump and abend involving CATALOG for DFDSS restore where SMS SG is not found. See TS005186210 and TS005186373.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

Specify ROOTVOLSER on upgrade workflow

Currently the ZCX upgrade workflow will allocate a new 4GB ROOT VSAM file (e.g. ROOT2) based on the current SMS attributes of ROOT (as per the documentation). This is a poor assumption on most systems as the workflow will fail if space is not avai...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Allow /usr/sbin/chmount to be able to change SETUID/NOSETUID dynamically

At the moment there is no dynamic way of switching between SETUID and NOSETUID using /usr/sbin/chmount. If you need to switch between these two mode it requires an umount/mount of the file system and potentially an outage of the application using ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

ixglogr offload elapsed records

For effective tuning of the system logger it would be advantageous to have the data for offload elapsed times available. Currently this would only seem to be available through a ctrace. this request is to enable records for offload elapsed to be a...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 3 Not under consideration

DFSMShsm failed CDS Backup only stops automatic functions on just one system

If the cds backup fails, the auto functions should be stopped on all systems, not just the one on which the backup was running.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Use of System Symbolics on Library names in the Program Class

Properly maintaining the Libraries listed as ADDMEMs in the PROGRAM class can be quite cumbersome when LINKLIST changes are made in the environment. Ensuring that the libraries are current is a foundation of using program level security to protect...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Assign MSGTYP=(JOBNAMES) to message IEF402I to better communicate job failures

At present, other job initiation/termination messages are visible to consoles with MONITOR(JOBNAMES) attribute set, such as IEF403I, IEF404I, and IEF450I. The lack of MSGTYP=(JOBNAMES) for IEF402I appears to be missing the spirit of the MONITOR(JO...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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