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DFRMM ABENDU0006: handling I/O errors to the CDS

RMM issues an ABENDU0006 to indicate that a problem was encountered when trying to perform I/O to the RMM control data set. In some cases this abend is not needed and could be handled in a less disruptive way that does not require customer interve...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

NFS: Support nfs4_setfacl/nfs4_getfacl and read/write named-attributes

Using NFSv4 under z/OS, there is no support for the NFS4_getfacl / NFS4_setfacl commands, and the 'n' - read-named-attributes & 'N' - write-named-attributes.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Future consideration

During zOSMF upgrade of zOS add the ability to connect Old Usercat to New Mastercat

For as long as Serverpac has been available (and maybe even before) when doing a zOS upgrade I create a New Master catalog and connect an old User Catalog to it which contains datasets that start with SYSINST in it. SYSINST is used for Serverpac d...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

CommServer-z/OS 1.13 - cssmtp - Log Output during startup

We started the CSSMTP with a defined LOGLEVEL Value of "7" (default) and we have seen 491 Lines written to Logfile during startup and additionally another 743 Lines while shutdown. Everything is fine ! In case we set LOGLEVEL to "0" we see 467 Lin...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

PRESERVE OWNERid during COPY/DUMP/RESTORE DFDSS

If a dataset is logically copied/dumped or restored by DFDSS the OWNERID field in the Catalog is reset to NULL. The Customer wants to preserve the previous content of the OWNERID field during DFDSS Copy/Restore because customer uses a function in ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Add USERID/JOBNAME to USS BPXO058I + BPXF274I msgs

This request is to add userid/jobname to the USS mount failure message (BPXF274I) and the output of D OMVS,MF (BPXO058I). Mount failure message in SYSLOG: BPXF274I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.ZFS.SOMEFS 031 FAILED TO MOUNT. RETURN CODE = 00000079, REASON COD...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

RACFVM: Provide commands to display the current MFA server and to change which MFA server is active.

Having this functionality would be useful to z/VM Systems Programmers and for RACF/MFA Security Administrators as a way to quickly assess and potentially alter the current MFA server environment if it is determined to be necessary. For z/VM system...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Enhance SNI client configuration

In a scenario where a single mainframe client task is talking outbound to a cloud service on a single listener for multiple services, there is no way to configure SNI in ATTLS to support this. The only current way is to split the client task into ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Update OSPF,LIST,ALL display to include ABR status

Update the D TCPIP,,OSPF,LIST,ALL command to add a status YES/NO of whether the given OMPROUTE instance is operating as an OSPF area border router. There doesn't appear to be any existing indication of this other than knowing that there are interf...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add Warning Message to OMPROUTE When Adapter Unexpectedly Attaches to OSPF Area 0.0.0.0

An EZZxxxxx message should be issued by OMPROUTE when an OSPF interface attaches to area 0.0.0.0 by taking the default value of Attaches_to_Area under OSPF_Interface because it was not specified. Creating a warning message when this situation occu...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration