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PDSE member count limit

Until z/OS V2R3 PDSE allows for member creation until it reaches the count of 522,239 members. After that, we get message IEC306I : IEC036I A WRITE would have had to create another member in a PDSE which already contained the maximum allowable num...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

Information about device status for channel path on message IEE174I

The form 17 of message IEE174I in response to the command DISPLAY M=CHP(chpid) shows the channel path status to the device despite the title shown on display being “DEVICE STATUS FOR CHANNEL PATH chpid” The information showing z/OS device status f...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Add SSID and CCA for each device in RMF74.1 and DCOLLECT

The RMF 74.1 Logical volume activity records as well as the DCOLLECT records contain the Logical representation of the volume. The 74.1 does have the DSS Serial number, but that is not sufficient to uniquely identify a volume in a shared Environme...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 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

Improve information in zFS statistics on z/OS

It is hard to use the zFS statistics because some key information is not available.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

zOSMF Configuation Assistant AT-TLS reusable rules

In working with the Configuration Assistant we have found that with the IPSEC Reusable Rules we can create a rule that is easy to move between stacks. Having this capability for AT-TLS rule would also be helpful.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

After zEDC Outage IFASMFDL ends with RC4 but dumps no data

If there is any Problem with dumping from a logstream, IFASMFDL should not end with RC4 but with RC8 or RC16 as soon as the data dumped from the stream is reduced due to the error.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Some RACF commands issue misleading error messages

When issuing a RACF command such as ADDUSER or ADDGROUP RACF issues misleading messages when the user or group exists. Additional misleading messages can also be issued about OMVS.For instance, when DFSGRP exists:ADDGROUP DFSGRP SUPGROUP(SYS1) OMV...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

SSHD can not use ICSF calls for private key

We use SSHD for a lot of transmissions and with the ability of some users to elevate to super user we need to secure our SSHD RSA Private key outside of UNIX. We are currently migrating to using the Certificates option in the zOS_SSHD configuratio...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

improved monitoring: more messages and quicker

current monitoring does not show all errors, and sometimes shows errors that have been corrected. Monitoring should also be quicker - status of compute nodes should have enough priority to show problems in near-real-time.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration