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Additional Authority needed on RACF Classes

Class Authority allows a userid to create profiles in a RACF class owned by themselves or another but they can only see profiles they either have at least READ access to or own. Only a user with SPECIAL can see all profiles in a class, there needs...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

DFSMSsms ACS provide &OLDNAME variable during ACSENVIR=RENAME in MGMTCLAS

During SMS &ACSENVIR='RENAME' processing there is currently no ability in the MGMTCLAS routine to check what the original dataset name is, you only have the newname in the &DSN variable. This means that inappropriate renames cannot be prev...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration

Program control and system symbols

Hello Our colleagues make intensive use of system symbols when they install new softwareor do some maintenance. They can use it also for APF libraries and so on. Now we are struggling when we want make use of system symbols for program controlled ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Create Health Check for Hardware Messages

We would like to have a health check for hardware messages on HMC. For example, when an RSF service call fails for some reason, it will be reported on HMC but we would like to see an exception on health check panel to. In our installation the HMCs...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Sysplex Distributor decisions monitoring

We consider to implement new settings of sysplex distributor for WAS and DDF workloads. According to manuals, in DISTRIBUTED mode it cooperates with WLM, which assigns weights to each DVIPA network address separately. https://www.ibm.com/support/k...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow Sort Work (Temp datasets) to go multi volume

Could you please enhance DFSMS DFSORT to allow work files (Sort work/temporary files) created during SORT processing to go multi volume. Other temporary datasets can now go multi volume apart from SORT work datasets.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

Allow GDGORDER to LIFO and FIFO with Relative GEN Reference

With z/OS V2.1 I can now specify GDGORDER=LIFO or GDGORDER=FIFO. Only that is for the base of the GDG. I would like to be able to specify//DD1 DD DISP=SHR,GDGORDER=FIFO,DSN=GDG(0) Then the GDG order would apply to the earliest entry instead of the...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 4 Not under consideration

SuperC WORKSIZE option as ISPF configuration option

Like its sibling in the assembler toolkit, SuperC allows setting a WORKSIZE, which if not specified defaults to 64000. The default value of 64000 has probably been there since the program came into existence, and storage came at a premium. It woul...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase CP areas to maximum supported size on VM installs

Historically, VM delivered a modest average size for most CP areas like ckpt, warmstart, and directory. Now that disk is no longer really constrained on most systems and VM management skills are increasingly rare, increasing the reserved areas to ...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Increase VIPADIST limit to greater than 64 ports

I'd like to ask that the current limit of 64 ports per VIPADIST IP address be increased.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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