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z/OS - WTO/WTOR add a No-Manipulate Parameter

Hello IBM, It is a critical requirement for products such as GDPS, that messages are seen by the product. This involves a significant amount of expertise and time to check z/OS, NetView and SA components to ensure that certain messages are not man...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

DFSMSrmm CDS/Journal Mirroring support

DFSMSrmm needs to automatically resolve CDS consistency point from journal when recovering from unplanned DR event. Consistency point of the hardware produced an event to RMM where the Journal had been updated but the CDS had not. At startup today...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

SYMNAMES symbol usable as value of a FIXLEN

Allow a symbol to be specified for the value of FIXLEN in a PARSE statement
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

New feature of migratie DPM system by HMC/SE UI

DPM machine do not have a formal HMC/SE UI option to migrate system configuration between different machine generation. Current solution for this DPM migration is using API. For example, if customer want to migrate a DPM machine from z14 to z15, t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 2 Future consideration

3.4 allow use of individual qualifiers

The data set list in ISPF 3.4 allows the use of a slash character to represent the entire data set name. Likewise, there are times when I would like to refer to only one of the qualifiers in the data set name. For example, if the data set name is:...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Crypto Hardware Adjunct Processor Assignment

Crypto Adjunct Processors (APs) are assigned to Crypto PCHIDs at Power-on Reset time. In our experience they differ across multiple z15s despite being identical in hardware configuration. Can we manually assign APs to PCHIDs even if it requires a ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 Future consideration

De-Mystifying SNMPv3 configuration and eliminating IOBSNMP

The configuration process for SNMPv3 is (to put it politely) utterly horrible. The snmpd.conf file contains what appears to be a random set of statements with no obvious way of correlating or ordering them. An addtional program - pwtokey - is requ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

UPDATE RACF APPCLU SESSKEY ENCRYPTION

o We are unable to connect JES2 NODES when SIGNON=SECURE is specified on systems secured by RACF and those secured by CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret. Nodes where RACF is in use on both NODES are connecting successfully albeit with a non-FIPS 140-2 comp...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Export/import Scheduled Operation

The possibility to import/export scheduled operation from HMC. (mode like import/export profiles)
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 7 Not under consideration

Provide iNotify subsystem as on Linux and LoZ

This is a request to have an 'inotify' subsystem on z/OS, as currently exists on Linux and LoZ. There's no API on z/OS to monitor activity on directories, and poll() can only monitor files, sockets, etc. - but not directories.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

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