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z/OS

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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?
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Not under consideration

WLM initiator

WLM initiator address space will be dropped after several minutes inactive. Customer want to control the WLM initiator dropping processing, such as there is a parameter we can set to control how many minutes the WLM initiator will be dropped, or e...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Not under consideration

System Logger: Avoid cutting Logrec Entries for Abend47B of suspended List Transition Exit SRB's

We frequently get logrec entries for an abend47B related to the system logger. In case TS003898376 is has been clarified that the reported abend47B is happening "by design" for the XCF List Transition exit SRB (IXLX1LTE-SRB) under which System Log...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 1 Not under consideration

Performance improvement for FTPs MVSPUT

When the FTP subcommand MVSPUT (introduced with z/os v2r1) is used then for each member transmitted a new data connection is established. For a non-encrypted connection, this is no problem, but for an encrypted connection each of those data connec...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Improvements to Policy Agent

An expired key causes connection failures to DB2. Looking to improve resiliency within AT-TLS implementation
about 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

RMF Recording KiloBytes Transferred

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP98002: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=2 +4=1 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=4 -1=1 Priority=2.5 (Please ignore the vote of 0.0 elsewhere) RMF should collect the kilobytes (KB) transferred for each device on an inter...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Health Checks formatted in a dump

Health check exception information should be included in a dump with IPCS formatters provided.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Future consideration

Provide Creation Time in ISPF 3.2 for data sets created with EATTR=OPT

Hello, in support of the new Format 9 DSCBs created for data sets defined with EATTR=OPT (or VSAM) on an EAV, ISPF 3.2 displays the creating jobname and creating stepname for the requested data set. But, there's a third information contained in F9...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Increase the number of jobs that can be traced via an IDAVDTxx parmlib trace request

During a VSAM case TS004219577 I had to run multiple VSAM traces to collect trace entries for seperate address spaces, due to the IDAVDT00 parmlib entry being unable to support more than one job in the jobname parameter. If this were increased to ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 0 Future consideration