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Syntax check for configuration member

It would be great to have an option to verify syntax of configuration members, namely ATCCON, ATCSTR, to prevent any possible issues to be found out only during IPLs, which are often done during weekends and resolution of such issues can be slowed...
2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Under review

C headers for IEZCOM and IEZCIB macros in SYS1.SIEAHDR.H

To facilitate C/C++ programs employing the EXTRACT and QEDIT macros to detect and respond to STOP and MODIFY operator commands, please provide these headers.
13 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Under review

LFAREA 2GB pages not supported

z/OS client running under z/VM requires to use large pages memory to run their DB2, Openshift, Splunk and other consumers applications. as an example; z/OS client is coded this way : LFAREA=(1M=16896,2G=(16,10))
3 months ago in z/VM 0 Under review

zSORT Batch Pipes support

Bradesco uses DFSORT in many of its jobs that run on production LPARs. We recently have put on a project to test and certify the use of zSORT as a way of lowering the elapsed time of our critical jobs in the batch window. We also make use of Batch...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Under review

Enhance the syscall readfile to understand file codepage

Currently readfile only appears to understand files that are tagged with IBM-1047. Files tagged with ISO8859-1 are returned by readfile without translation and are thus unreadable on the EBCDIC platform. readfile is a powerful tool for the rexx de...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

Add SDM recovery when HSM cancels TCT activity

On z/OS, this idea would be a design change to add SDM (system data mover) recovery when HSM (hierarchal storage manager) cancels TCT (tape cloud tiering) activity so that ANTMAIN does not need to be canceled. The SDM recovery should clean up all ...
17 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Under review

REFORMAT REFVTOC should NOT delete VTOC-INDEX prior to a reply 'U' to message ICK508A

Regarding message ICK508A, we understand that a VTOC-INDEX would be built when the reply is ‘U'. However, it is not appropriate to delete the existing VTOC-INDEX before a user answers the message ICK508A. We think that ICKDSF REFORMAT REFVTOC job ...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 3 Under review

Sign the z/OS Customized Offerings Driver for Validated Boot

The IBM Customized Offerings Driver (IBM Program No. 5751-COD) should be digitally signed by IBM so that it can be optionally checked in the field using Validated Boot for z/OS procedures. Although IBM Z installations can already validate the inte...
23 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

Extend z/OS Validated Boot Protections to z/OS Sysplexes

Currently z/OS Validated Boot only operates within the scope of a single z/OS LPAR (or z/VM guest in limited fashion) — what I'll refer to as a "Stage 0" configuration (in Enable mode). Thus it's currently possible for a z/OS Sysplex to consist of...
25 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

New command to inverse a file

We would like to have a DFSORT utility to easily invert a file, so the records to become columns and the opposite (like matrix inversion). Input example: ABC123 output: A1 B2 C3 Kind regards Konstantinos
25 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Under review

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