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Permit reuse of Kerberos TGS for tickets with lifespan less than that of the TGT

Integrated Security Services NetworkAuthentication Service / Kerberos: Change TGS/Service Ticket issuing behavior. As described in the referring PMR, we have discovered that if the lifespan of a TGT is greater than the default lifespan of a TGS se...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 1 Future consideration

Fix XCF message 'Job awaiting access to XCF data paths

The message 'Job awaiting access to XCF data paths' at RMF Job Delays panel, may not mean the job is really ran into delay awaiting access to XCF. It may be necessary to analize some others RMF panel details to find out if that message is related ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Remove secret key in ISPF panel

Hi, Today we store the secret key in a vault, to reduce handling of the secret key. To secure the buckets we do not want to enter the Secret key in the ISPF panel. We want a mechanism allowing us to indicate the path of a file in the mainframe whi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Enhance AL with copy (ALC)

Attended your session at Austin Tech University. Found out about the AL (Allocate) command in 3.4. I like it! Thank you! I would like to suggest adding a copy to it (Allocate a new dataset with attributes like dataset in line, then copy source dat...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Row count not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL

Row count is not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL. This means that applications that dynamically issue TBSARG will have to loop through all rows, determine if the row is visible or not, counting the visible rows, and finally determine which row is curr...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Improve HSM ML1 migration volume selection by considering fragmentation

When HSM attempts to migrate a data set to an ML1 volume, it only considers free space available on the volume. Unfortunately, in an environment with large volume sizes (like 1TB EAV's), there can be a lot of free space available on a volume, but ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Set MSR data set response time targets for automatic tiering with

Currently, automatic tiering is managed at the volume/extent level without knowledge or consideration of the service level objectives for the data sets on the volumes. When caching was introduced, the MSR objective was used to drive must cache/may...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Not under consideration

Recalls of NON-EXTENDED datasets fail on EAV volumes if TMS (Track Managed Space) is full

Getting message IGD17272I VOLUME SELECTION HAS FAILED FOR INSUFFICIENT SPACE.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

Enable AUTOCVT to assume untagged files are ibm-1047

I have been porting several open source applications to USS using the -qascii option on the C/C++ compilers. This works wonderfully when auto conversion is also enabled. The one whole in the auto conversion feature is that it doesn't assume untagg...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Allow Virtual Concurrent Copy (VCC) to dynamically allocate Working-Space Data Set(s)

Virtual Concurrent Copy currently requires each installation to pre-define/allocate the Working-Space Data Set necessary to contain the PIT track images. There is no easy way for the installation to know what the appropriate size for these data se...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Future consideration