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z/OS

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Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Field Filters - Incident Log

Need the ability to filter on an 'is empty' value within the filter rules within, and also provide 'or' logic within the filtering rules inside Incident Log.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enable support of more than 100 characters passed as parameters to RSH batch from JCL

After z/OS V2.1, JCL PARMDD statement is introduced to be able to pass the long parameter of more than 100 bytes to any program from JCL.But PARMDD doesn't support RSH at the moment because RSH doesn't have LONGPARM attilibute. I used JCL PARMDD s...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

OAM Global MAXTAPERETRIEVETASKS - Increase max from 100 to 256

We are in the process of converting from NEAROAM to OAM, we are 50-60 percent complete and have ran into some performance issues on StorageGroups when assigning threads for the MAXTAPERETRIEVETASKS on the SG. Currently, the global MAXTAPERETRIEVET...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

CPU accounting information reported as 0 in IIB, due to limitation in clock() function.

We run IBM Integration Bus on z/OS and use the accounting feature of the product. We use it for distributing the costs internally based on the usage for different message flows.The message flow that consumes the most CPU is reported as 0 CPU consu...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Ensure ASCBEJST, ASCBSRBT are cleared after last job step.

This will keep residual values from being put into SMF 30.4 and 30.5 records.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

RACF database recovery utility

In the case of primary database in error with no backup database, after restoring a copy from dump, maybe we have lost some updates. In System Programmer's Guide we can find the following text: Your database is probably back-level. To bring...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

zERT Sessions Exclusion

Provide ability for zERT to exclude loopback to loopback address sessions.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Tape temp dataset change request

The management class ACS routine is not driven for tape temp datasets, therefore the MC is not being passed to the TS7700 and uses the default.MC.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF System Status - update screens with no data to something besides WARNING

When viewing screens with no data, it would be better to present the window as blank or NA, instead of a WARNING
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

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