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More robust wildcarding for Jobname and user id for Attls policies

We have an increasing number of applications using ATTLS. These applications have names that start with a variable but have the same ending. However the ATTLS policy only allows trailing Wild cards, not wildcards in the middle of the jobname.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

#RVARY LIST command processes after HASP400

#RVARY LIST command processes between HASP400 and $S. Please refer to case TS008419404.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Automated OAM configuration tuning advisor tool

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

NEW!! SubGroup / SuperGroups for LPAR Controls and capping

We have found a need to control different groups under a common cap for a mainframe server. We would like the ability to have test systems with lesser priorities set to a subset value of a larger cap controlling all LPARs (including test) in this ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 8 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...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 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

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

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 ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 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

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