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z/OS

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Would like to see messages IGGN307I and IEA712I made highlighted and non scrollable during IPL

It would prevent issues post IPL with missing LPA libraries
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Password Policy per user basis

Right now, we could set the following control globally. Inactive revoke, password minimum change interval Is it possible to set it down to the user level? There might be some use cases in a system that different user ID having different requiremen...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Change HSM HOST id from single character limit to multi-character

A multi-character HOST id would allow customers to customize ARCCMDxx commands to be unique by multiple system symbols like a combination of operating environment (Live or DR Test) and HSM address spaces. Example: HOST=&SYSENV.&HSMHOST HOS...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 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.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 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

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

Honour the CLIST keyword on SEARCH when UID is specified

The SEARCH command in RACF does not honour the CLIST keyword if UID is specified. This is documented behaviour insofar as the manual states that all other keywords are ignored if UID is specified. However it is very unhelpful and could simply be a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

extended ip-address support for netaccess

Include the ip-address of the network resource that is being accessed to the ICH408I-netaccess-message and not just in the smf-audit-log. Everytime netaccess is denied for a user the ich408i message occurs.As administrator it's much easier to dete...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SDSF XDC Panel Include DD name or DSID

Currently when using XDC to print output from a job in SDSF it only displays the JOBNAME and JOBNUMBER. This is fine if you are only using it once. However, if you have multiple XDC commands going on at one time, then when you hit ENTER, it is not...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Planned for future release

enhance UUID@GEN to generate ITU compatible uuids

UUID@GEN data set is a member of hlq.SEZALOAD. (alias of member ezauidgn) currently TSO UUID@GEN or TSO ezauidgn generate for exampleuuid (458487b55160.02.c0.64.02.03.00.00.00)containing time_high := 458487b5time_low := 5160family := 02host := c06...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

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