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MONITORING CF LINKS

IBM defined a specific msg-ID IXL158I to identify CF Link with status NOT OPERATIONAL but we don't have msg-ID when the link is ONLINE-DEGRADED. Instead, link DEGRADED is provided as a result of the command /D CF,CFNM=CFXX but isn't the more effic...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Allow a callable workflow to call a callable workflow

Currently an error is produced when a callable workflow attempts to call a callable workflow. Please remove this restriction.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

USS Health Check for MOUNTS limit

a USS Health Check would give a warning for when a threshold was crossed, alerting users to a fixed limit for the number of files that can be mounted.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

zERT - Allow filtering for cipher suites

Please add a filter criteria for CipherSuites, like 009D or C027. So it is a quick view over used certificates, and we could reduce our AT-TLS rules for longer unused ciphers. Alternative would be a filtering with multiple parts, like AES_CBC_128 ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Requesting a way for CSSMTP to send alerts or messages to SYSLOG for failed emails.

We had several hundred mainframe emails from our batch cycles that were blocked and we were not made aware. We need a way to either send these messages to our SYSLOG so that we can look for them or we need a way for CSSMTP to send out an alert so ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Make location of pids for communications server daemons configurable

Serveral of the CS daemon pids (e.g. /etc/syslog.pid, /tmp/pagent.pid) arewritten to directories /etc or /tmp and the location can't be changed. We think /etc is a configuration directory and no daemon should write to it. To /tmp everybody has wri...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Add hardware-level utilization information for PCIE cards

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSSHARE012857: Voting Priority=2.9 +4=2 +3=4 +2=9 +1=6 abstain=2 Priority=2.1 (Please ignore the other vote of 0.0) Currently, the RMF PCIE XML report provides information about the use of a PCIE card for ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Eliminate IEBCOPY Restriction: Allow Multiple Input PDSs to be Sequentially Unloaded in a Single COPY/COPYGROUP Operation

Requirement: IEBCOPY should allow multiple input partitioned data sets to be unloaded when the objective is to produce a single output file in sequential format. This restriction is undocumented in the utility manual and can only be found in the m...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

IEBPDSE Report Enhancment

Enhance the IEBPDSE report to: 1. Move the DSName to the top of the report 2. Add information on what processing parms were specified
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration