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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

Requesting timestamp to be 'restored' to original for sym links when tar or pax is used to 'unzip' an archive file.

Hello USS Development team, As we prepare to migrate HFS user file systems to zFS I am testing back out scenarios and have observed that both the IBM provided migration utility (BPXWH2Z) and back out options I have tested (tar and pax to copy new ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

SDSF WLM panels should display dynamic information

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 12/04/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: Over the last few releases, SDSF has provided some great new features. One area to be ex...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Avoid HIS's deleting WIC files when WIC collection stopped

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 12/04/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: When you use HIS to record WIC records by using this command: F HIS,WIC,INMEM=IFASMF..W...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Future consideration

The clock() function that determines process time on z/OS needs to be increased or reset to zero after it reaches max value

We have a PMR 29022,082,000 opened with IBM Integration Bus V10 support about SMF CPU time not reporting correctly for some message flows. L3 found that the clock () function they were using to calculate processor time hit max value so they could ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under 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

Request for change to Management of PKCS11 tokens ICSF panel

We are trying to setup on a z/OS LPAR a client-server platform (e.g. Pcomm client to TN3270 server or browser to HTTP server) fully compliant with FIPS 140-2 requirements. To accomplish this task, all TCP/IP AT-TLS policies, security levels and ci...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Update Security Configuration Assistant Plug-In to allow ability to permanently ignore some failures.

If a particular failure will never be changed, this would allow for a "clean" report. This would allow administrators to focus on important failures. A method should also be supplied to examine all excluded failures in case the situation changes.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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

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