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z/OS

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Display version of USSTABLE, INTERPRET and LOGMODE table

Users have difficulty knowing which version of the various VTAM tables are actually being loaded by VTAM.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Change criteria for triggering IRA130E and SYSI_RESOURCE_CONTRAINED

z/OS Workload Manager (WLM): Message IRA130E and SYSI_RESOURCE_CONTRAINED flag can be triggered when there is still a large amount of HVCOMMON available. The amount of HVCOMMON should be taken into consideration. For example, the condition could b...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Future consideration

Enhance zERT to Detect Non AT-TLS connections.

The product only identifies traffic if it uses ATTLS for encryption. Not all products or app servers connecting to us use ATTLS. For example, MFT is AES256 and yet they show up as unsecured. Same with CICS gateway and others.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RMFIII WFEX in batch mode with longer time ranges from 7 to 30 days or more

WFEX (Work Flow Exception) is a performance tool that directly facilitates determination of causes/reasons for delays in workloads. However, the interactive facility on TSO has limitations, it only captures events interactively on short time range...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 12 Functionality already exists

"Install multiple" must be available in all dialogs

In "Network Configuration Assistant" the new "install multiple" feature is missing in some dialogs. How to recreate: change set, New --> Reusable Config. Change something (e.g. new port reservation), save, validate against baseManage Change Set...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Update zlsof -d command

Update the zlsof -d command to identify the blocksize in its output so the size of the locked or delete file can be accurately determined. Today, the zlsof -d displays the following:CommandPID UserFile System MountpointSizeInode/file The user cann...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to browse JES2 control blocks related to a specific job

As part of our product development, today we found a need to browse JES2 control blocks for a specific job. For implementation, it should be able to read blocks from storage or from the spool. It would also be beneficial for customers who write th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Regarding OMVS.ROOT of z/OS installation ServerPac of z/OSMF version, /etc and /var I wish the BPSISETS work step of changing the attribute from DIR to SYML was done earlier.

Now, the reason why this SymLlink processing was not omitted in the installation of Server Pac for z/OS V2.3 is that there was a key point in the JCL that generated the installation JCL for V2.3. In V2.3, there is a JCL member called ALTCAT, and a...
8 months ago in z/OS / Order/Distr/Install 1 Not under consideration

DFSMSrmm SEARCHDATASET

The ability to search for tape data sets that had a MANAGEMENTVALUE assigned, in looking at the SEARCHDATASET command, I foundyou can search for MANAGEMENTCLASS or NOMANAGEMENTCLASS, but not MANAGEMENTVALUE or NOMANAGEMENTVALUE. I can generate it ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Planned for future release

New verify option of DSS COPY for PDSE data integrity

Provide new verify option to ADRDSSU COPY function.Our customer encountered data page curruption of the copied PDSE. DSS copy ended RC=00 but some data pages of one PDSE "SYS1.SHASLNKE" were overlayed.Now our customer always verify PDSE using ISRS...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 10 Future consideration