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    zopen utilities as part of standard USS

    Make the zopen utilties part of BCP. This way everybody will have it 'on their system' My suggestion is to put all 'that cool stuff' in /zopen There's nothing more to it to be honest ;) You might wanna start with a POC-trial-run in the next ADCD d...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / General 2 Delivered

    Enhance zfsadm shrink command

    Enhance zfsadm shrink command to give the new size not only in K-bytes but also by a percentage value based on the current size. For example a value of 50 to reduce to half the size. This would allow to have an automated process to reduce size of ...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 4 Delivered

    In the event of a comm outage with the CEC, some signal that z/OS could monitor for that would allow automation to restart BCPII.

    we are never notified that the MCL upgrade or SE reboot is complete and cannot automatically recover connections and registration.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 3 Delivered

    SDSF to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) for Middleware Subsystems on z16 showing boost eligibility and if boost has actually occurred along with type of boost.

    There is currently no way to determine whether a Middleware Subsystem running on a z16 is eligible for BOOST without going into the WLM Service Definition --> Classification Rules --> STC and then paging right to check the BOOST column. Not ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

    API Calls in Java in addition to assembler, Cobol and C++

    I have customers who writes all the programs for mainframe in Java. New developers are better writting Java code rather than others. The tools for development are in workstation and they test their programs on the workstation. My idea is to have t...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

    Change space units for GIMUNZIP new allocation

    After installing z/OS V2R5 via z/OSMF ServerPac PSI, the target and distribution non-VSAM data sets (PDS and PDSE) were allocated by "bytes" unit instead of traditional "tracks" or "cylinders", which made it difficult to measure the size of data s...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 4 Delivered

    Use more frequent commits when importing SMF data in to the zNA database to reduce Db2 resource consumption

    Committing every 1000 inserts would be a good starting point This number needs to be customizable so we can adjust based on our needs as workloads and reporting needs change over time Our preferred solution to the lack of commits would be to use t...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

    Increasing Security and Control for FTP JES Interface

    Provide mechanisms for disabling and restricting the use of the FTP JES interface.Add a JESINTERFACELEVEL=0 option in configuration file FTP.DATA to prohibit FTP users from interfacing with JES. Allowing access to JES from FTP introduces a securit...
    about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Delivered

    Allow permanent HTTPS_KEYRING name for HTTPS PDUU for z/OSMF Incident Log

    Because the HTTPS_KEYRING name field is not preserved in the z/OSMF Incident Log 'Send data' wizard between two sessions the z/OSMF user MUST know/enter the keyring name each time before sending data. The HTTPS_KEYRING name should not be a mandato...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

    Enable zERT to Detect Partial/Failed Secure Handshakes

    We would like an enhancement to zERT reporting that would detect a failed or otherwise incomplete SSL/TLS or SSH handshake/negotiation in order to distinguish it from a fully unencrypted connection. Right now zERT marks connections that failed to ...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

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