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    Anticipating RACF profiles that reaching maximum size

    IRR411I message indicates when a profile reached the maximum output size that RACF can handle (65 535 bytes), but it is not possible to know the real size of a profile at a given moment to anticipate this situation. Would it be possible to impleme...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

    ISPF Edit should be site configurable to prevent the Editing of a non-zero PDSE member generation.

    Editing a non-zero (non-base) PDSE member generation is asking for trouble for many reasons, the least of which is that non-zero generations are not able to be accessed via JCL or dynamic allocation. After much discussion on PDSEGEN the decision a...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

    FCTOPPRCP(PRESMIRREQ) failures with ADR935W, while deleting numerous data set just finished Flash Copy on a volume.

    System : z/OS V2R3 / DS8886 R8.2 SP 5.1 - 88.25.8.0 (Same configuration MM Primary and MM Secondary) We run several jobs that consists of DFSMSdss Flash Copy with Preserved Mirror and delete the Flash Copied data set at the same time in daily.We s...
    almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

    DFSORT AI Engine

    Customer runs lots of DFSORT workload and often has to tune its parameters according to the input file characteristics , amount of memory available and other factors. This can be a cumbersome task, error prone and sometimes cause inefficient use o...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

    zOSMF - Full High Availability (not only for REST)

    Current implementation of zOSMF does not allow for a full High-Availability setup, which contradicts the platforms design with highest availability, redundancy and data sharing.We suffer from zOSMF downtime required for maintenance of the hosting ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Enable SRB during IODF (soft) Activate

    Activating a new IODF can be a time-consuming process, especially when dealing with multiple sysplexes from different customers distributed across all CPCs that require activation. The process involves distributing the IODF to all sysplexes and pe...
    4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Under review

    Add an Option to enable multi thread when using GDKUTIL

    We are challenged to increase the transfer speed using GDKUTIL, we try to play with the ChunkSize with no big improvement, the main issue is that GDKUTIL is mono thread. Can you add the ability to use multi thread in CDA ?
    6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

    GDS_RECLAIM should delete/define the GDS versus reusing the same create date

    Currently, when you turn on GDS_RECLAIM the system will reuse an existing GDS if it is in DEFERRED status. This is a great idea except for the fact that the process keeps the original create date. In one instance we had GDS' that were created in F...
    10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

    zERT Analyzer - Allow for inverted filters for TCP/EE Endpoints

    Currently the selected filters for the TCP or EE Endpoints do only allow to use include filters. However, I want to specifically exclude a Server and Client address range, which is currently notpossible. Hence, the plugin shall support the option ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

    Telum I/II monitoring/reporting/controls

    Add mechanisms to control/limit what applications and workloads (NNDA flagged) will have access to Telum I/II accelerators in the machines. Controls could be done via HMC on a hypervisor level similarly to how processors assignments and weight dis...
    9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

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