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DFSMS does NOT populate S42AMZRB and S42AMZWB

DFSMS does NOT populate S42AMZRB and S42AMZWB in SMF_42 subtype 6 record in our SMF data That is the reason why TDS displays them as 0.0. This is NOT a TDS error.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

z/os to be able to change tape cat code

hello, our z/VM team currently performs this task for us. via something called DFSMSRM, this includes a better Q LIB VOL command as well as set volcat volume by chance can z/OS have similar capabilities?
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Not under consideration

Option to report silent exception handling in LE

During some performance analysis we discovered in CICS trace a huge amount of S0CA - decimal overflow - interrupts caught and recovered by Language Environment. These were caused by a simple ADD statement in a cobol program which runs in an ILC en...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

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

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

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

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

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

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

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