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Provide the option to request DSSB to be allocated in Common storage by OPEN

JES3plus uses its own STARTIO Driver. In order to allow the creation of SMF record 42 subtype 6 for spool I/O data sets, JES3plus needs to provide an IOD control block (pointed to by the JES3plus IOSB extension - IOSXIOD), which will point to the ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

Allow FTP proxy port to be configurable

Customers have interest in being able to configure the port used for FTP proxy.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide ability to list all z/OSMF Workflow Definitions

z/OSMF Workflow Definitions must be specified when creating a Workflow instance. However the user must know the name and location of the file that contains the Workflow Definition. It would be FAR easier to use Workflows if the Workflow Editor 'ca...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

&SUBSTR Pseudovariable

Changing the value of a variable in the middle of a string could be improved by allowing the use of &SUBSTR as a pseudovariable like can be done in PL/I. SET &OLDVAR = &STR(THIS RUN IS A LIVE RUN) So instead of using:&NEWVAR = &...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Having DAA and SAA be aware of read-only clusters.

Customer's environment: 4_way HYDRA GRID.Customer has multiple composite libraries tied to the same storage group. So, SMS does balanced distribution of write tape I/O between those composite librarys into the same SMS storage group. The point her...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Enable PASSTICKET support for the FTP Client

There needs to be an option added to the FTP Client to enable the use of PASSTICKET as an authentication metric. Currently the only options that can be used with FTP Client is Password/MFA or X509 Certificate logon. The issue with password logon i...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Provide a JES2 command to display the number of lines an STC has written and at what point it will abend

This concerns tasks that are not cycle more than a few times a year. When a started task is not cycled often, it can lead to S722 abends due to the amount of lines written. The JCT holds the line count. Even when SPIN is specified, it does not dec...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Enhance RACF so that ALTUSER UserID OWNER is a noop if the OWNER is already set

Please enhance RACF so that if someone were to issue:ALTUSER BRUCE OWNER(MARKN) and also if UserID BRUCE already has an OWNER of MARKN then an ICH message is issued that nothing has been modified instead of just modifying the owner again.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

IOEFSUTL format and other functions should identify the Version of the zFS formatted or changed

When formatting a zFS, IOEFSUTL does not identify what Version of zFS (currently V4 or V5) that it actually formatted. As seen in the Use Case in this requirement, lots of data about bytes and traces and details of the service level of the tool it...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

zOSMF REST and multijob stream

When using the zOSMF REST interface to submit a multi-step job only the last job is returned. We need all jobs to be returnedFor example, we have this piece of jcl//WAITJOB1 JOB ,'ARYTST',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,// NOTIFY=&SYSUID,REGION=4M/*JOBPARM...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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