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PDS with 4K directory blocks, Load module headers

Current PDS directories are 256 bytes with 8 byte key, so 38 blocks per 3390 track or 9.5K of data. Allowing 4096 bytes with 8 byte key would allow 11 blocks per 3390 track or 44K of data. Current PDS directories only have full blocks until end of...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Not under consideration

PTHREAD library always emit error when SYSIN comes from SYSIN dataset and unconditionally opens SYSOUT

When our C++ application code make the first thread creation call to pthread_create() the language environment implementation unconditionally goes and opens the SYSIN and SYSOUT DDnames. Our application can, in most circumstances, already be readi...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 4 Not under consideration

Support RECORG 'FS' in DFSMS Data Class Construct

Modify the DFSMS Data Class construct to support Record Organization value of 'FS' for Unix System Services zFS file system.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

z/OS EZATMAIL output class configuration option

We would like to have the output class for EZATMAIL set as a configuration option. Currently output class A is hardcoded and there is no way to change it.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide an additional parameter on the FORCE console command that would bypass the Q10 enqueue

The FORCE command does indeed try to obtain Q10 in order to run the CSCB chain and find the JOBNAME you are trying to FORCE. The task in CNMPROC that issued the FORCE JOBNAME command and is now WAITing on the Q10 resource from the ENQ issued by th...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

IKT00201I - TSO message to the SYSLOG

If IKT00201I was sent to the SYSLOG, it would allow automation to pick up, alert and react to the message. All mainframe customers would be able to automate this message and alert or add TSO users to increase the MAXUSERS, temporarily and be reset...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Zap a cloned zFS file with the correct audit-file id (auditfid) when it is created

Various auditing routines use the zFS supposedly-unique "file id" as opposed to the filesystem names, and have an issue when one or more datasets in the same shared-filesystem plex are using the same file id. DFDSS is IBM's poster-child for manipu...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

ZOSMF submitting jobs should also be controlled by surrogat class

The started task of z/OSMF can submit jobs without being checked on having a permit on a profile in the surrogat class.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

NETSTAT STATS doc update and output enhancement

The output values (counter) for 'SEGMENTS SENT' and 'SEGMENTS RETRANSMITTED' of command 'D TCPIP,,NETSTAT,STATS' wrap after *4'294'967'295 to 0.*Need to be verified by IBM. This 'wrapping situation' happens in our environments about every 7 to 10 ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enable support of more than 100 characters passed as parameters to EZASNMPD

I discovered this problem when working with the SNMP agent, EZASNMPD. However I believe it to be more systemic than just EZASNMPD. If you provide more than 100 characters as parameters then it abends with CSV043I REQUESTED MODULE EZASNMPD NOT ACCE...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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