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Possibilitar que ocorram HMIGRATES em paralelo no DFSMSHsm

Peço criar a possiblidade do HMIGRATE de DATASETS executar em paralelo e se possivel com o mesmo controle de quantidade similar ao MAXMIGRATION TASKS do Primary Space Management
24 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

SMF/ICSF - Increase input validation for SMF record signing

Defining a TOKENNAME for either RECSIGN or ARECSIGN in the SMFPRMxx member is only validated to be exactly 32-characters long. However, one can activate the member with SET SMF=00 without throwing an error (even there is no associated private/publ...
24 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

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

In z/OS the client needs a possibility to create keytab files with the option for custom salts to be used with WAS or other Components

Traditionally the keytab utility was shipped with the IBM Java SDK until Java 8 but misses the functionality to use a custom SALT. From Java 11 on, it was not further shipped. IBM z/OS offers a keytab utility but with very limited support to use a...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

To be complete, the IPCS SUMMARY COMMAND dispatchablity information needs to go beyond TCBFLGS4 and also include WEB dispatchablity information plus more

From IPCS, the SUMMARY command is widely used to determine the state of a TCB in a given address space. That includes the TCBFLGS4 non-dispatiblity flags. For example, if a TCB was in an RB wait via the Wait service, IPCS would state that 'Top RB ...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Future consideration

SMPE Management Plugin

It would be useful to add basic SMPE management functions into z/OSMF. Currently, when using Software Update, if there is a problem with the CSI you have to switch to the ISPF Plugin to enter the panel to make appropriate changes to the CSI (such ...
9 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Externalising the ZFS ucat Automount allocation error’s in SYSLOG.

A change is needed for the 'UCAT' option of the 'ALLOCUSER' parm in automount. A error message should be externalized to SYSLOG when the creation of the end users zfs fails because there is no ALIAS in the master catalog. Currently the only way to...
25 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Anticipating RACF profiles that reaching maximum size

IRR411I message indicates when a profile reached the maximum output size that RACF can handle (65 535 bytes), but it is not possible to know the real size of a profile at a given moment to anticipate this situation. Would it be possible to impleme...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

zOSMF - Data Set and File Search enhancement for data type

This new feature is very useful and handy to scroll through large members and files. However, when allocating a new file in USS it should be possible to provide the file format in which the file is allocated like UTF-8 or ASCII. Additionally the c...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration