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Increase TAPEVOL facility class limit to 50k

Current TAPEVOL facility class used by HSM tapes is limited to 10k and we can have 10 suffixes if following volser ranges as numbers. Currently on my system, we have breached this limit and working on moving from TAPEVOL to DATASET facility class....
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provisioning workflow for zCX instance provisioning

Current standalone workflow to provision zCX instances is very well made. We believe zCX instance provisioning should also be made available as a provisoning workflow, which would include all the additional configuration done by z/OSMF cloud provi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

New option to suppress the MDRDMT records from the logrec

The Itau bank has a very large TS7700 tape environment with a heavy workload.We want an option to turn off the MDRDMT records from the logrec, it is necessary because depending the quantity of logical volumes mount requests, sometimes the logrec d...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Have JCL symbol for PDS submitted from

Have a JCL symbol to be the PDS where a job was submitted from. so I can have JCL like//MYJOB JOB// INCLUDE &mypds(DEFS)
about 4 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Zert database access layer

The goal to have some level of role-based access controls within the zERT Network Analyzer application itself. For example, there could be a role that can only execute queries and view the reports, another that can create, update and delete querie...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

TSO & ISPF need services to show whether a file is ZFS

Neither basic TSO/E nor ISPF have services that will show that a dataset has been formatted as a ZFS filesystem. ISPF services DSINFO and LMDLIST (including option 3.4) should indicate that a VSAM file is a ZFS. LISTCAT shows this under the ATTRIB...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Change of behaviour for the USS 'tail' command

The USS 'tail -1 <file>' command is outputting 2 lines if the final line in a file does not end with a new-line character: >cat tt aaa bbb ccc>>od -h tt 0000000000 81 81 81 15 82 82 82 15 83 83 83 0000000013 >tail -1 tt bb...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Planned for future release

DAE should include functionality to purge/discard dumps by abend code for a customizable duration of time.

DAE currently requires manual intervention to ensure dumps are no longer suppressed. It is not uncommon that problem scenarios can involve many of the same dump being produced within a very short duration of time (such as 10 minutes or 1 hr). In t...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 3 Not under consideration

HCD - Use 64-bit virtual storage to print HCD report through CBDJRPTS

CBDJRPTS uses a lot of private area to print HCD reports, reaching a limit where some reports cannot be printed, depending on the size of the IODF. For larger IODFs, we suggest using data spaces or 64-bit virtual storage instead of a private addre...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

Ehance OpenSSH security initialization code to add the application name

Please enhance all OpenSSH code to add APPL to RACINIT/REQUEST=VERIFYs. What we do currently with a ICHRIX01 is check if the jobname matches SSHD* then copy Jobname into APPL field pointed to in the RIXPL. Or in other words the security initializa...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Future consideration

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