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DFSMShsm for files Incremental File Recovery

We currently use DFSMShsm to back up entire ZFS data sets, as well as Spectrum Protect to back up individual files. When we need to quickly recover a ZFS to the most current state, we first recover the entire ZFS data set, followed by a selective ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

ANTRQST support for returning System Name for each Path Group ID

In our environment with 26 LPARs across 16 Sysplexes it can be challenging and time consuming to determine which LPAR a DASD device is online to. The DEVSERV command: DEVSERV QDASD,xxxxx,QHA is useful for one or two devices but can be cumbersome w...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

Pervasive Encryption feature to enable PDSE, but exclude LOADLIBS (which cannot be encrypted).

We cannot enable PE for our PDSE libraries, as there is has been no method to exclude LOADLIBs, which become unusable when encrypted with PE. This prevents us from enabling encryptions for PDSE files that could contain confidential or restricted d...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Planned for future release

USS shell should complain invalid hex numbers within a command

Copying from ASCII generates hex numbers which are not valid under EBCDIC. Using this hex numbers for example in a mv/cp command as filename makes it impossible to work with the filename, because the wrong hex numbers are included in the filename ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Future consideration

Option to ignore CRL expiry date in TR34 ICSF services

TR34 RKL ICSF services CSNDT34B and CSNDT34D uses CRL from CA for generating the TOKEN. One of the CA is sending a CRL valid for only one day, but confirmed that the EPP does not validate the CRL End date. Is it possible to provide an option to ig...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Support special characters [<>&"] in the password (PW) attribute of the HTTPPROXY element in the SCMPCLNT DD input stream

We are trying to use the "network delivery" function of SMP/E. At our site we need to go through a proxy server to access the Internet. The proxy server requires a "service account" userid and password to be authenticated using NTLM. However, the ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Add fields SUMECTR, SUMECTRE, SYSECTVC and SYSECEVC to z/OSMF Resource Monitoring

Adding this metrics to Resource Monitoring allows by one hand to have access to metrics that does exist in RMFIII, easier to configure than RMF UTIL and allows system programmers to see statistics related to DDF transactions when high performance ...
8 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

System SSL and AT-TLS

Provide ability for AT-TLS defined Applications to maintain their Jobnames for use in GSKSRVR SSL Component Traces. Currently, all AT-TLS Applications fall under JOBNAME=TCPIP.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / SSL 4 Future consideration

DFSort support for non-extended encrypted files

Our company intends to use pervasive encryption to encrypt our mainframe datasets, but DFSort currently does not support non-extended encrypted files. It is crucial that this support is implemented since all our sorting is done through DFSort and ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Planned for future release

SSI 80 Data Set List Request to JES2 should return correct attributes even if changed after data set creation

One of our products, Entire System Server, has a component to collect information about jobs and SYSOUT data from JES2 and JES3. When it was written in 2000, it used the SSI 80 request types available back then as well as JES2 and JES3 services e....
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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