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z/OS

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Increase limit of 18 volumes for HSM CDS backup to 59 as it is for z/OS.

During CDS backup HSM could not locate the oldest backup copy of a cds and issued misleading message ARC0744E RC36 REAS8 telling there is a catalog problem. IBM support found the number of volumes of the cds backup copy to be limited to 18. IBM wi...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

ISPF MSGID State Variable

ISPF provides the ability via the command line to change the setting of the MSGID state which determines if the message ID is displayed with the ISPF messages. There is currently no way to programmatically determine the current state or to change ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Avoid hang of System Logger's End-of-Memory Resource Manager IXGR1EOT

A hang of System Logger's End-of-Memory (EOM) Resource Manager IXGR1EOT prevented effective cleanup for 4 minutes thus also locking out other relevant EOM Resource Managers during this period.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

Ability to set $LIBPATH from the IZUPRMxx parmlib member

Enable the ability to set z/OSMF $LIBPATH through the IZUPRMxx parmlib member instead of the override file which is not documented.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Secure RMF CPC panel

We are looking for a supported way to secure the RMF CPC Capacity panel (ERB3BFI) to restrict access to technical support staff only (whilst allowing access to all other panels) I have not been able to find anything in manuals that describes a for...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Show JCL statement numbers in JESJCL output in the Status tab

When a JCL error happens, statement numbers are displayed in JESYSMSG. SDSF shows these statement numbers in JESJCL but z/OSMF's Status tab for JESJCL is missing these statement numbers. This means a customer needs to go to SDSF to view JESJCL in ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Message EZZ0053I should include the file that was used

When an obeyfile is issued the message EZZ0053I COMMAND VARY OBEY COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY is issued. However if there are a lot of obeyfiles being done, it is hard to determine which one it was and if the obeyfile was successful or not.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

JES2 health monitor for converter tasks

JES2 health monitor task should detect that all of the converter TCBs are in a long wait and issue an appropriate error message.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Remove RACF non-alphabetic character requirement from Passphrases

NIST Password Policy Guidelines no longer recommend that password complexity be imposed, since studies have shown they can encourage the creation of bad passwords/passphrases. The manual indicates that RACF enforces a basic set of syntax rules whi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum number of Functional Recovery Routines (FRR) entries

In the z/OS operating system, functional recovery routines (FRRs) provide means of recovery when running within SRB routines. FRRs are set through the SETFRR macro and are mapped by the FRRS control block. There is always one set of FRRs per proce...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Future consideration

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