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Selectable items under Customizable Data Replication for User Profile Data

We would like to use Customizable Data Replication across all HMAs in two data centers to replicate passwords for local IDs (i.e. ACSADMIN, SERVICE) but each data center has unique User Patterns. Can the User Profile Data type have sub-categories ...
21 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

RACF Trace to trace only nonzero return codes

I can enable RACF trace for a job, but it captures so many records, and it is hard to find the records of interest. I would like to see a new option #SET TRACE(NONZERO) which produces only exit records where the return code was non zero.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enabling of a rest service/https support to use OAM functions

Enhancement of OAM by enabling rest service support for customers to use OAM functions
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

Automatic update of MRDB when customer initiates CIU transaction.

Currently when a customer makes a permanent upgrade via CIU, the MRDB must be updated manually by the HW rep or Business Partner, leading to possible future ordering issues if the manual update is not completed.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Submitted

Enhance D OMVS command to show all active PARMLIB members used

At IPL time a d omvs command will display all the BPXPRMxx members used as expected. But if a t omvs=xx is issued later then the d omvs command will only report on that one BPXPRMxx and *not* the prior members which is misleading and incorrect as ...
5 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

SDSF to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) for Middleware Subsystems on z16 showing boost eligibility and if boost has actually occurred along with type of boost.

There is currently no way to determine whether a Middleware Subsystem running on a z16 is eligible for BOOST without going into the WLM Service Definition --> Classification Rules --> STC and then paging right to check the BOOST column. Not ...
10 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

When using IFASMFDL for extracting SMF-data, job might end with RC=08-0804 if no data is in the log stream

See also case TS017633432. In brief: we are writing SMF data to logstreams (As recommended by IBM). We are having different LogStreams in order to pre-select the SMF-records. On Log-Stream is for DB2-SMF records in which we collect records 100:102...
22 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Submitted

Save the selection of the “Retain Last Selection” option after leaving the SDSF Panel

With z/OS 3.1 a new option "Retain last selection" for the SDSF confirmation of action characters was introduced. The Retain last selection option can be used to default the action character confirmation with the last used value for the duration t...
5 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add Support For Read Only 3390 DASD When Running In LPAR

Maintenance of base and middleware on z/OS systems in my shop is performed on a master system. When new z/OS systems are created, these master volumes are copied to the new system. The cloned system LPARs quickly get out of sync with the master sy...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 3 Needs more information

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