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z/OS

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Enrich message ICH70001I with the number of attempts.

Asis: ICH70001I userid LAST ACCESS AT hh:mm:ss ON www, month, day, 19yy This message is issued when the Resource Access Facility (RACF) RACINIT service is invoked to initialize RACF processing for a new address space. The first time this user ("us...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance zERT to Shut Off SMF 119 Subtype 01/02

The existing 119 subtype 01/02 is a subset of the new zERT 119 subtype 11/12. They should have the ability to shut off the 01/02 OR use the existing data from them - combined with a few additional fields in 11/12 to make one SMF file. Currently, t...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Pass CA-TSS informational message to FTP user as signon

FTP users do not see informational messages (last used, password expiring, etc.) from CA-TopSecret at signon. FTP Server needs to be able to pass these messages back to user. Here's CA's comments on FTP and informational signon messages. We (CA) h...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enhance z/OS FTP to allow copying Datasets cataloged with SSA

z/OS FTP does not support to copy Datasets that are cataloged using an SSA (system specific alias). Either it does not work or a wrong dataset may be copied in certain circumstances e.g. SSAZOS.SYS1.SAMPLIB may point to a z/OS SMP Target Dataset S...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

JES2 ePVT space requirement

We've recently upgraded to zOS 2.3, and JES2 now requires a large amount of ePVT storage. For us this posses a problem as require over 1200MB of ECSA. Currently we flip flopping applications as they are required. Is there any way to reduce the ePV...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Planned for future release

zERT Data Management History

Under zERT Data Management History, please expand the list of previously attempted import operations, whether successful or not. We would like to have the ability to see the last 2000 (or more) operations. In addition, please add a column / field ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SDSF access to UNIX Filesystems e.g. via xdc

In SDSF it is possible to archive reports via xdc to a Dataset. It would be very handy if it would be possible to save it here directly to a UNIX File e.g. "/home/user/file".
over 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP & RESTORE - Provide option to Validate PSE dataset structure during DUMP

DFSMSdss - Provide option to check Extended Format datasets structural integrity during DUMP to prevent backup of 'broken' datasets that cannot be RESTOREd. If a dataset has some sort of structural error during DUMP this only becomes evident durin...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

SMP CSI - Global & Target zone - Sysmods Receive/Apply - Reporting/Audit

There's multiple people who perform the receive/apply etc. processing against the SMP/E CSI's and sometime it's an ask to go back say about 3 months back to find out who received/applied the sysmod, so I thought since CSI is KSDS i could certainly...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Identify when a job was released from the JES hold queue

<p>Copied from old SHARE Requirements system <span>SSSHARE018626</span>: Voting Priority=2.6</p><br /><p>+5=1 +4=4 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=2 -1=1 Priority=2.6</p><br /><p>A field should be added...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

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