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    Reinstate Import Policy feature in Network Configuration Assistant

    When onboarding clients this feature provides the ability to convert them flat files to NCA in a timely and efficient manner with minimum error opportunities. In the past I have used it to import the running configurations from the Stack, so I hav...
    6 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    LE library routines stack storage should not be initializzed

    We are using LE runtime option: STORAGE(00,NONE,00,0) We are not able to change this. This imposes a huge overhead in the LE library routines like the jsonGetValue(). As these routines do not rely on LE initialization of stack storage option, we w...
    6 days ago in z/OS / LE 0 Submitted

    New IBM Health Checker for z/OS PARMLIB Inconsistencies and Errors

    z/OSMF Parmlib Management provides syntax validation for individual members (e.g., BPXPRM, IEASYS) via REST API, checking keywords and structure but not field values, correlations, or cross-member inconsistencies. IBM Health Checker for z/OS runs ...
    11 days ago in z/OS / General 0 Submitted

    SDSF - Output Class 'OUTCLASS' Panel

    There are for most of the definitions like Jobclass (JC), SPOOL definition (MAS,SO,SP), System info (PROC,INIT) but no quick overview for the Output Class "OUTCLASS" definition. This request is to provide another JES related panel for OUTCLASS to ...
    16 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

    IODF default value of FEATURE and PARAMETER in the manual and the F1 help panel

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

    Command to display how much full is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in given moment)

    Dear IBM Team, there is now way how to find out how much occupied is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in DSLIST 3.4 it always shows 100 %, so this is not relevant). There is just warning message IFB080E once it is 90 % full and then message IFB081I once it is...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 0 Future consideration

    Enable FEATURE SHARED=YES in the HCD PROFILE

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

    IODF report in CSV format

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Not under consideration

    DASD SHARED default YES in HCD dialog

    Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 2 Needs more information

    zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

    Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
    2 months ago in z/OS / USS 2 Functionality already exists

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