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Provide better messaging and prevent hang situation in dynamic RRSF main switching

Prevent blocking situations when user is starting a RRSF dynamic main switch if conditions of empty inmsg data sets is not met. Currently it is difficult to detect what the reasons are if a RRSF dynamic main switch is not completed. IBM should try...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 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.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

DEFINE PAGESPACE Resilliancy to ensure page space clusters are formatted completely

This resilliency item would need to be implemented under IDCAMS, Catalog, and RSM. An IDCAMS DEFINE PAGESPACE command is a unique operation that involves a DEFINE CLUSTER and Format under the covers in order to produce a useable Pagespace for RSM ...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 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.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

PHP API and Perl API on EzNoSQL

Add PHP API and Perl API to EzNoSQL to allow more flexibility and integration with mobile and Web applications of EzNoSQL. Not many Web servers or mobile platforms use C. Java is more common. These are the other APIs: C and Java.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Future consideration

RMM should not submit volume ejects when OAM is down or restarting

We were in the process of ejecting several hundred thousand VTS logical volumes on a system that is in the process of being decommissioned when we started getting some errors (CBR3717I & CBR3650I). In determining root cause we found out that a...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Please modify SDSF RACF calls to class JESSPOOL to use the RACF group(not RACF userid) to validate if a user has access to view/modify output.

This would be useful because users in a group should be able to view /modify all output created by userids in their group. Currently, SDSF only checks the userid of the output and many RACF groups contain many(5-50) userids so it would be very ben...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists

RACF command LISTDSD DSNS not working for master catalog

Currently RACF is designed to exclude the master catalog dataset name from LISTDSD DSNS output under "CATALOGUED DATA SETS AFFECTED BY PROFILE CHANGE".
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under 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...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

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...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

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