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Support the use of data set "wildcard" names within the z/OS Change Tracker product

Today, the z/OS Change Tracker interface allows "wildcard" data set names to produce a list of specific data set names, which are then populated in the z/OS Change Tracker data base. If a new data set were added to z/OS that falls into the data se...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 1 Future consideration

Attempting to use SPACE CONSTRAINT RELIEF dataclas atribute allocation after a failed multi-striping allocation

To attempt SPACE CONSTRAINT RELIEF single-striping allocation after a failed multi-striping allocation. As the level2 support had explained in PMR 50100,228,631 , when a multi-striped sequential dataset allocation fails ( Sustained Data Rate great...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

z/OS Job/Task Level CSA/ECSA/SQA/ESQA/PVT/EPVT usage

Currently SMF Type30 record does not have any field that shows job or task level CSA, ECSA, SQA, ESQA, Private and e-Private usage. These metrics are only available at LPAR level which is not helpful to trouble shoot or monitoring these metrics. R...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 3 Future consideration

Unable to connect to z/OS Container Extension(zCX) from the WAN

The zCX default bridge subnet 172.17.0.0/16 causes conflicts (sometimes and always in our case) to the WAN workstations IP addresses. We request an enhancement or user customisation to avoid subnet conflicts when identified.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

IGD17296I DYNAMIC VOLUME COUNT MESSAGE IN JOB LOG

There are too many IGD17296I messages in Batch Job Log.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Future consideration

Misc reporting issues with dataset compression and encryption

This RFE is submitted to request corrective actions for the following dataset compression and encryption capabilities in z/OS 2.2 and above.Misc issues:a) There is no documentation for SMS.IND field in IEHLIST LISTVTOC output that describes a valu...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future 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...
10 months ago in z/OS / Order/Distr/Install 1 Not under consideration

RMM should keep RMM database in sync with VTS and TCCB

We have had several instances over the years where the issuance of an RMM command has resulted in the RMM database being out of sync with the TCDB and VTS volume repository. In general we would like RMM to keep its' repository in sync with the TCD...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

REST API Extensibility

zOSMF should provide a way to register and unregister custom API handlers for users and vendors. This feature would allow users to create their own API handlers in whatever language they want and leverage the authentication and existing REST capab...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Make PassTicket Java library thread-safe

The segmentation error may occur when calling IRRRacf.jar to generate a PassTicket in Java. This happens when a Java service is under heavy load and PassTickets are generated concurrently. Could you enhance PassTicket generation in Java to be thre...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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