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Enhance RMF M3 filtering capability

Please provide a means in the RMF M3 enclave panel to filter on user id, similar to the existing capability to filter on service class.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

NFS : add official support for UNC paths from Windows clients

we are using NFS on z/OS2.4. We finished a migration project from DFS to NFS because DFS is no longer supported in z/OS.2.4. Our clients are NFS version3 clients on Windows servers and workstations accessing z/OS NFS by using kerberos. Our Windows...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 0 Future consideration

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

"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

Enhance the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter tool to use FTP/S (TLS) instead of plain old FTP

I would like to see the file transfer functions of the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter tool enhanced to use FTPS (FTP with TLS). I had not tried using it until recently. I learned that it would use FTP to transfer generated jobs to our z/OS systems and d...
9 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - Workflow "History" Export/Extraction

Given the Auditing requirement "Auditors" like to have evidence of workflow execution and "History Tab" export function can assist in this direction. Therefore an enhancement is required in z/OSMF Workflow history tab for export.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 Symbol Replace in instream data related to blank processing

If I use JES2 symbol-replace in instream-Data there is special processing of blanks. Manual: "When symbols are substituted in in-stream data, the system attempts to maintain the position of non-blank characters. This is achieved by adding or remov...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Cleanup of uncataloged data sets with DFDSMSdss

DESCRIPTION:The Itau bank Storage support team sometimes needs to run a cleanup related to uncataloged data sets, this process consists of run a backup for the files first and after delete them from DASD to save disk space.The current design of AD...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future 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

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