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Improved usage reporting for PDSE Hiperspaces

Provide statistics on PDSE and PDSE1 Hiperpsace memory usage to help customers understand if they would benefit from additional meomory and if the data sets using the Hiperspaces are good candidates for caching. Currently, information is only prov...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Provide a method of predicting in advance the results of a DFSMSdss SPACEREL action

Provide a method by which it's possible to predict the result of a DFSMSdss SPACEREL command without actually performing the release, to allow it to be run against only those volumes that will give the best results.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

RACF: Avoid RACF Abend for a RACF TSO Comand due a missing Dynamic Parse Table

Currently RACF TSO commands (like LD, short for LISTDSD) can fail with a RACF abend if RACF "Dynamic Parse Table Initialization" either did not yet run or failed to run.RACF should be changed to return a meaningful return code (instead of abending...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

have CEEZ1IPT fail more gracefully

When an application is using PIPI, and the PIPI Main code creates children but then completes back to PIPI, future services that need the IPT will fail with an Abend0C4 in CEEZ1IPT due to not getting a CAA address from CEEARLU.CEEZ1IPT needs valid...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Add LDAP configuration option to restrict specific IP addresses from connecting to the server

As it stands currently there is no easy way for an LDAP administrator to prevent/block specific IP addresses from connecting to the server. The admin must rely on other products like TCP, we recently found out that NETACCESS is not a viable soluti...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 2 Future consideration

PFI0813-1627 RACF group attribute non-connectable

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: tdoerkesSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0813-1627 RACF group attribute non-connectableHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: RecognizedC...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Support creating PDSE V2 data sets in FTP Server SITE and Client LOCSITE command

Much to my chagrin, I found that I could not create a PDSE V2 data set using the available parameters in the SITE command, rather only a PDSE V1. I had to use the rather roundabout way of using DFDSS unload, FTP the unload file, then DFDSS reload.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow service to update (add assignees) workflow steps

We need an interface to add additional user or groups to steps of a workflow.(It would be o.k. for us if this information could be provided on workflow creation)To fit with the existing workflow services I recommend a genericPATCH /zosmf/workflow/...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

TCB field for V64WAENTRY

The 31 bit couterpart VSMLIST has the TCB field IARV64 REQUEST=LIST should have it as well
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 0 Future consideration

Allow modification of CEEDUMP naming convention via parms

Currently, there is no means to change the CEEDUMP naming convention. The LE code uses /path/CEEDUMP.date.time.PID or /path/FNAME.date.time.PID, which may not match the convention a customer uses for other trace and dumps in Java. Providing such a...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

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