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Deploy an option to suppress warning messages in HCD.

There are warning messages that come out in HCD that are known to be ok, but still spill out a lot of warning messages that are additional things to review. It would be great to have the ability to suppress warning messages in an IODF and those be...
3 days ago in z/OS / HCD 0 Submitted

Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Under review

Change allocation unit from cylinder to megabyte or tracks for a better release

To avoid loosing space when customer allocate file in cylinder unit, it should be great to have a properties on dataclas to convert automatically cylinders unit allocation to tracks or megabytes. In this way the space release is done at tracks bou...
5 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS sysout to access all data in an open sysout file

Currently with SDSF it is possible to view all of the data in an open sysout file. With /dsfs/sysout/.... that same open sysout file is empty. It obviously works when the job step, or job, completes as it is closed *but* when open and active that ...
26 days ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 4 Future consideration

ACEE Modification Detection events to SMF

Having an ACEE modification event generate an SMF record would be helpful to an organization's SOC team or any SIEM solution. Today the only way to generate an actionable alert is to roll your own automation and build an actionable event based on ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

dsfs/sysout should use stepname.procstepname.ddname

Currently /dsfs/sysout/ ... uses stepname.ddname.something - that can be misleading as multiple steps can use the same ddname - adding the procstepname so it is stepname.procstepname.ddname.something would provide additional granularity and clarity.
26 days ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

Upgrade to the BPXPRM## syntax checker

Please add a check to the syntax checker for BPXPRM* parmlib member. If a /* is entered and another /* is entered please note at least a message that an */ was not seen before the /*.
9 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Middleware recovery Boost parameters options

Dear Madam/Sir We would like to have the feasibility to change the way that is divided the daily interval of 30minutes of Recovery Boost. It should be useful to have the possibility of customization of thefollowing Middleware Recovery boost settin...
10 days ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Not under consideration

Simple documented configuration of passphrase complexity rules

I am familiar with IRRPHREX option. However, I would like a simpler option that is managed and displayed in SETROPTS. I don't need extensive customizability, I really only need to enforce minimum length of 15 rather than 9. I can do it with IRRPHR...
29 days ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Under review

Suppress SDSF ULOG panel after z/OS V2.5

SDSF ULOG display was changed by z/OS V2.5 following. <V2.4>The users who do not authorized READ access to resource ISFCMD.ODSP.ULOG.jesx could not display ULOG panel. <V2.5> The users became to display ULOG panel whether authorized or...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

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