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Selectable items under Customizable Data Replication for User Profile Data

We would like to use Customizable Data Replication across all HMAs in two data centers to replicate passwords for local IDs (i.e. ACSADMIN, SERVICE) but each data center has unique User Patterns. Can the User Profile Data type have sub-categories ...
1 day ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

Add interface to JES2/3 to be able to submit jobs via SFTP script similarly as FTP

First, the facility is on the regular FTP to JES2 job submission. This is not available on an SFTP process, this interface should be similar to the FTP. How it should work: When a client sends data in this case to the zOS mainframe, after the file...
2 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

When using IFASMFDL for extracting SMF-data, job might end with RC=08-0804 if no data is in the log stream

See also case TS017633432. In brief: we are writing SMF data to logstreams (As recommended by IBM). We are having different LogStreams in order to pre-select the SMF-records. On Log-Stream is for DB2-SMF records in which we collect records 100:102...
2 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Submitted

Automate HSM RECYCLE and EXPIREBV commands by ARCCMDxx

For maintenance purposes, it would be very functional to have the possibility of scheduling an automatic window in ARCCMDxx to execute RECYCLE / EXPIREBV commands on specific days and times. This would remove the need to run batch jobs to execute ...
3 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Submitted

Built-in z/OS Unix package manager

z/OS Unix is slowly becoming more widely used and relevant with technologies like Python, GO, Zowe Explorer, Zowe Desktop and so on. Installs via pax are becoming more common and a new generation of systems programmers are coming in that need to i...
14 days ago in z/OS / General 2 Submitted

z/OS resolver should comply with the requirement in RFC 1034 to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names

RFC 1034 requires to use case-insensitive name comparisons when checking for matching domain names. Based on a recent incident that we experienced, it seems that the z/OS resolver does not do this. We are requesting the z/OS resolver to comply wit...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Centralized all logs into a single place

z/VM should provide an out-of-the-box capability to ship all service machines logs to a centralized console, similar to what z/OS provides with the SYSLOG.This could include OPERATOR console, *MAINT* machines, TCPIP related informations as relevan...
6 days ago in z/VM 1 Functionality already exists

z/OS IPL simulation

It should be very valuable to test an upcoming IPL in case of z/OS upgrade or other system parameter change. The simulation could consist of various checks for example ipl & catalog volume address verification, IPLPARM LOADxy syntax check, var...
17 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Support X-IBM-Dsname-Encoding header when listing data sets and data set members

Some mainframe developers may use a different encoding when entering the name for a new data set or data set member. However, it seems that z/OSMF converts these names behind the scenes to use the IBM-1047 encoding, so characters in the name are c...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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