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Change Default For VSAM Files Definition Extent Constraint Removal To Yes

We experienced a major outage in a number of our critical production systems late last year due to a Db2 partition hitting max extents before it could hit the maximum defined data set size. Db2's space management algorithm was to scan the full dat...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 5 Future consideration

STP setting and customization

With customers moving to zCloud, we are now combining customers with z/VM lpars set in different timezones onto a single processor. There needs to be a better method of utilizing STP, to alleviate unnecessary manual updates to the System Config fi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Server Time Protocol (STP) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Health Checker by including DB2 checks (IBM Development)

Enhance Health Checker by including DB2 checks (IBM Development)
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Not under consideration

Use placeholder text instead of real text for field descriptions

When you've gone to create a new workflow and the workflow editor has opened, , some fields has text in them already. The text then has to be manually deleted to get rid of it (see attached screenshot bad.png). The fields "Workflow ID", "Descripti...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

z/VM RACF DB minidisk support

Dear Development.I'd like to have provided option for RACF (RACFVM) having database on standard CMS minidisk (not OS formatted) for standalone zVM (with not shared RACF).Most of zVM I worked with have not shared security DB.If most of the z/VM gue...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 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

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

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

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