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    Reduce the increase of number of CICS getmains after LE z/OS 2.4 and new parameter CEENXSTG

    After the migration to z/OS 2.4 the number of CICS getmains increased by 40 percent.This tremendous increase is caused by the introduction of the new Language Environment parameter CEENXSTG.CEENXSTG is a parameter that indicates whether non-execut...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

    Media manager interfaces should provide feedback as to whether writes are actually using zHyperWrite or not

    The media manager interfaces don't give enough feedback about whether zHyperWrite is working or not. They only tell a caller that a data-set is zHyperWrite enabled, or not, during initial connect to that data-set. zHyperWrite state can easily chan...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Media Manager 1 Future consideration

    DFSMSdss COPYDUMP function would include an option to Tape REBLOCK

    DFSMSdss DUMP tape created using Large Block Interface , reduces its usability for other components, besides RESTORE and COPYDUMP.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

    Enable JMON to Track Job ID Reassignment during JES MAS Routing

    We request an enhancement to the JMON server to support job tracking when a submitted job is explicitly routed to a different system with a different JES Multi-Access Spool (MAS). JMON should be enhanced to detect Job ID changes that occur during ...
    27 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

    Display Issue with TSO CQUERY PATHS Command

    After issuing CESTPATH and CESTPAIR to establish a pair from A-Vol to B-Vol, the customer ran the TSO CQUERY PATH command against B-Vol. However, the output displayed the values of SERIAL#, SSID, and LSS for the Primary as those of A-Vol. These va...
    7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Future consideration

    Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

    zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

    The warning message should be issued for new datasets as well, not just for existing datasets.

    It would be advisable to extend the dataset profile warning to dataset allocation as well, rather than limiting it only to access and delete operations. Currently, notifications in the syslog and to the user are generated only for these latter cas...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Under review

    ACEE Modification Detection events to SMF

    Having an ACEE modification event generate an SMF record would be helpful to an organization's SOC team or any SIEM solution. Today the only way to generate an actionable alert is to roll your own automation and build an actionable event based on ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    Prevent User to be revoked from a RRSF side because of inactivity on this side

    We have a RACF RRSF network via our sysplexs. We have users who usually only logon in one sysplex. However, in rare situations it can happen that the same user has to logon in another sysplex. RRSF synchronizes the password for this user, but the ...
    9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

    Enhanced monitoring of VSAM RLS activity using z/OSMF interface

    Whenever there is a need to check SMSVSAM health for contention, locks response times and record queues one has to rely upon console commands usually routed to all the LPARs that run RLS workload in order to have a big picture of what is going on....
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

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