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Provide an override for message IGW01559E when using COPYGROUP to copy an Executable module and it's Alias into a target load library.

In certain circumstance when copying an executable module and its alias into an existing load module with the Replace modifier, error message IGW01559E is issued. However, the situation described by the error message does not apply. The Alias bein...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Improvements in zAWARE

It is important for us, zAware being able to read from syslog, because our installation is based on SYSLOG. Also we are interesting in synergies between IMS, DB2 and MQ, and zAware. And it is really important the coexistence between zAware and GDP...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Not under consideration

CRYPTO APVIRT in PROFILE needs to be overridden in USER by a CRYPTO DOMAIN APDED

It makes directory maintenance easier when handling a large LINUX server environment (or any that would use CRYPTO)
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Add mount option to perform ZFS file system integrity check at mount time

When coming up for the first time in DR, we have a request from one of our teams to be able to run a file system integrity check to look for any ZFS corruption.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF workflow granularity for DELETE

It used to be that only the owner of a workflow could delete it. Now it is anyone who has access to <saf-prefix>.ZOSMF.WORKFLOW.ADMIN Recommend that perhaps by making the workflow Restricted or Private also means that it cannot be deleted ex...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

CPHX enhancement

CPHX should be expanded to support more options of the VARY command. For example, VARY <online|offline>PATH can not be halted. Long running commands such as VARY with a 'range' should either run asynchronously, or be HALT'able'.
almost 4 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

New HCD function to define multiple CU's in one operation

When adding new DASD subsystems, many of the CU's required by that subsystem have identical attributes (switch.port, CHPID.link address, CPU.LCSS connections, etc.) except for the CU name and CU address. It would be a great time saver if there was...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / HCD 2 Future consideration

raise severity of message IQP041I

message IQP041I should be issued with severity of WARNING or ERROR. It indicates that PCIE support is NOT available. The system will come up regardllessly and message IQP041I is the only indication of the degradation.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Future consideration

LDAP Debug tracing should externalize negative SQL return codes

LDAP debug tracing does not externalize SQL error messages when using TDBM with DB2. This means that customers may need to recreate an issue twice, which may not be possible, in order to receive the SQL return code if the LDAP return code is not s...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Allow LU, LISTGRP, LISTDSD and RLIST-commands on behalf of the owner of a component

Implementation of profiles like:- IRR.LISTGRP.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.owninggroup- IRR.RLIST.OWNER.owninggroup Userids granted to a profile IRR.LISTDSD.OWNER.$OAB should be able, to list all dataset-profiles with Owner $OAB.This shoul...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

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