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Automount and RACF FSACCESS

When we use automount, where the policy creates a new zfs for a userid, in conjunction with RACF FSACCESS, "phantom" directories are created. It would seem more sensible that automount honours FSACCESS before the dataset is created.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Change Default For VSAM Files Definition Extent Constraint Removal To Yes

We experienced a major outage in a number of our critical production systems late last year due to a Db2 partition hitting max extents before it could hit the maximum defined data set size. Db2's space management algorithm was to scan the full dat...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 5 Future consideration

PKI Exit for SCEP Requests

Implement a PKI EXIT function on pre-processing operations in pkiclient.exe before call of SCEPREQ, to turn possible customizations on SCEP Requests.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Future consideration

z/VM RACF DB minidisk support

Dear Development.I'd like to have provided option for RACF (RACFVM) having database on standard CMS minidisk (not OS formatted) for standalone zVM (with not shared RACF).Most of zVM I worked with have not shared security DB.If most of the z/VM gue...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Management of Runtime Libraries

I want to be able to track a manage runtime environments of deployed software. I have one set of runtime libraries in sysplex.But I have multiple running instances using shared runtime libraries. For example one instance per system image in sysple...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Provide RMF metric id for every individual data object.

All data returned for an RMF DDS Report Request should also be available as single metric.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Link between called workflows in Archive

When workflows call other workflows, a connection is made between them, there is a link set up in the calling workflow to the called workflow, to easily find it and open it up. When the workflows have been archived, the link is no longer there, an...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

The TSO-RCEIVE command force DSNTYPE=LARGE for datasets larger than 2Gb. Bypass this to let SMS to allocate the ds.

TSO-RECEIVE command force DSNTYPE=LARGE for datasets larger than 2Gb. This causes that the receiveing dataset allocation is forced to DASD instead of being managed by DFSMS routines.Specially for large datasets might be useful to allocate them on ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Allow SID on OUTDD for IFASMFDL program

System: SMF Logstream Dump programActor: Any user of SMF data IFASMFDL program is used to dump SMF data from logstreams. Description IFASMFDL program does not allow SID on the OUTDD statement. Multiple jobs have to run to dump unique SID to separa...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

Domain per client

Domain per client with multiple projects, needs complete isolation from each other, can specify rules & parms. Domain is an openstack concept.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

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