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Preserve JESJCLIN & SYSIN over NJE / OFFLOAD / SECERROR

JES2 would preserve the special datasets JESJCLIN and the generated for SYSIN DD */DATA, when Jobs travel through NJE, OFFLOAD or there are security problems.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Improvements to Policy Agent

An expired key causes connection failures to DB2. Looking to improve resiliency within AT-TLS implementation
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

DFSMSdfp Use RACF to protect and control the use of DFSMSdfp dataclass

Datasets are allocated with different characteristics. To prevent allocation of dataset with wrong characteristics we protect certain dataclasses against common use. We basically only control it by using the read-only variables &GROUP and &am...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

NFS man pages missing

The following NFS man pages missing: crnl2nl, mvslogin, mvslogout, mvs2os2, nfsstat, nl2crnl, os22mvs, showattr, showmount
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Not under consideration

General settings page for workflows to set time-limitations

Support a new general setting page in Workflows and the user can set the time-limitation for all workflow users in this new general setting page, the time limitation can be set for different scopes, for example: the time limitation can be set for ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Populate STORGRP ACS variable during Class Transition

When doing a DFHSM Class Transition, environment SPMGCLTR, supply the Storage Group that the dataset currently resides in to the ACS logic most likely in the &STORGRP variable
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

Provide NOTERMUACC Functionality Equivalent for SERVAUTH

Please look to provide a functional equivalent of the NOTERMUACC Parameter on UserIDs/Groups for the SERVAUTH class, specifically NETACCESS in particular. This could potentially be achieved by expanding the NOTERMUACC Parameter to cover SERVAUTH c...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow MSGCLASS to be overriden

The message class for z/OS Unix is class A. This is a print class for us and listings are being printed we don't want to print. From my experience Class A is a common print class.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

Override EATTR attribute during Dfdss copy

Why is it useful? Current problem: Unable to use the Cylinder Managed Space (CMS) on an EAV volume during the DFDSS copy of large files. Copy job fails, with space abends even though the space is there. Use case/work around: DFDSS copy of large fi...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Need to cater for changing DLIBs when moving from small to larger volumes (catalog entry mismatch)

zOSMF is currently very restrictive and prevents installation to continue if DLIB catalog entries do not match. Especially in our case where we were moving from 3xMOD9 DLIB volumes to one MOD27 for DLIB datasets. This caused the installation to ha...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 3 Future consideration