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USS command bpxwmigf need to force a swap

I am using bpxwmigf uss command to help to migrate from HFS to ZFS, and also from a ZFS to another (extended) ZFS. It is very useful and reliable. But sometimes it fails to swap to the new ZFS due to message : status.......: swap deferred at 08:31...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Planned for future release

z/OSMF Workload Management - limited interaction within sysplex boundaries

Workload Management task interactions with sysplex are limited to the sysplex in which the z/OSMF host system is a member. It would be helpful if the Workload Management info could be updated, installed and activated across all sysplex's from a ce...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

IEBUPDTE Support for VB and LRECL > 80

This utility is limited to 80 bytes, but PDS/PDSE are not limited to 80 bytes, so we can not use it to add members to a PDS/PDSE that exceed the 80 byte limit. IEBUPDTE should support the limit of PDS/PDSE LRECL.IEBUPDTE should support RECFM=VB/VB...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

z/OS LDAP Support for AT-TLS

z/OS LDAP should either add support for AT-TLS or provide instructions for using LDAP while AT-TLS is active.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

RMF API JSON Support.

It would be nice to get JSON support for RMF APIs. Rightnow it only support XML.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

RACF LISTUSER command to show GROUP connects in alphabetical order

Imagine you are requesting access to a z/OS lpar, and you have a long list of GROUP connects to request. As your access requests are processed, you can go back to the system and issue the RACF LISTUSER command to confirm the GROUP connects are cor...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Optimize repartition of the LPAR on the several drawers of the Z

Today the algorithm of repartition of the LPAR on the several drawers is to fill the first drawer, then the second one etcIf you use few CP and few memory, all your partitions will be started on the same drawer with a L4 cache shared with all the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow service to update (add assignees) workflow steps

We need an interface to add additional user or groups to steps of a workflow.(It would be o.k. for us if this information could be provided on workflow creation)To fit with the existing workflow services I recommend a genericPATCH /zosmf/workflow/...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/VM RACF SMF Report Writer Enhancements

Request to enhance RACFVM Report Writer to be compatible with RACFVM z/VM 7.2 and later releases.
about 3 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Use a Cryptographic controls when varying DASD volumes online in order to provide extra security.

Many multi-LPAR sites wish to have a simple IOCP configuration where all devices can be accessed from all LPARs. This is a potetial security problem as devices from one LPAR can be brought online to another hence bypass the access controls for dat...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Not under consideration

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