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Round robin scheduling of SRBs to CF list connectors

z/OS will always process the list notifications on a given system in the same order. It steps through the queue of structures that have active connectors on the system, one at a time, looking for structures that have list notification users; and t...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Provide Limit on SDSF JES2 Commands

Currently a SDSF user can submit any number of commands with SDSF in the BLOCK Command process. JES2 can hang if too many $P or $T commands are entered.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

bcpii error enhancment on group cap value

I was trying to change a group cap and was on an LPAR that was not in the group. Instead of getting a bad data return code or something meaningful I got: REXXHostRc = 0 rc = 101 DiagArea.Diag_Index = 0 DiagArea.Diag_Key = 146 DiagArea.Diag_Actual ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Verify/Compare ISO-4 Encrypted pin blocks

Currently to validate an ISO-0 Encrypted pin block we compare the cipher text of 2 pin blocks. We would like to do the same but ISO-4 pin blocks have a random component to it so that cipher text can never be the same. We would like an API that tak...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

RMM SEARCHDATASET/SEARCHVOLUME with WRITEDATE enhancement

Our customer had requested FITS MR0502135119 and OA45286 for CRDATE was created. This enables to specify creation time as a criteria in the RMM SEARCHVOLUME/SEARCHDATASET subcommands. But now our customer would like to want the enhancement for WRI...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Planned for future release

Override system wide LE STORAGE(,,0,) setting within FTP to avoid high cpu when transferring tape files

We recently entered a case TS009032448 at IBM in which we addressed a FTP high cpu issue. Transferring a file from disk took less then 1 cpu sec and when transferring the file from tape it consumed 36 cpu seconds. After thorough investigation it a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

have syntax checker fo pagent

If I want to change pagent, I update the configuration file, and issue F pagent,refresh on the production pagent. If there are problems, I have to roll back and redo the changes. This is not production like behaviour. You can only have one pagent ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands.

Allow RRSF to distinguish between ALU commands and only propagate RESUMES/PWs commands. Restrict/qualify the type of commands that can be sent across environment instead of existing all or nothing approach.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

OpenSSH debug1: Exit Status 1 - misleading

System: OpenSSH on z/OS Actor: User needing clarification / adjustment of failure message - can be misleading in its current state Description: For all current versions of OpenSSH, we have something like this: Connection to hostname.xyz closed.Tra...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

Allowing first qualifyer masking in DATASET names

Many legacy naming conventions make it difficult to establish a simplified set of commands to define DATASETS. This is specially hard in the case of sysplexes with many systems so there are DATASETS that somehow identify the system in the first qu...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration