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Need to register more than one user with the same email address in the WORKATTR segment

It is quite common for a single human to have more than one system id, but have only one corporate email address. I am unable to register more than one user with the same email address in the WORKATTR segment. I get this error and the email addres...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow ML1 DASD volume DEFRAG when HSM is active

Based on a Case that I had opened regarding the use of DFDSS DEFRAG and ML1 DASD volumes, IBM Support mentioned that "...if you want to do defrag the ML1 volumes, you should backup the ML1 volumes first and then shutdown HSM. You should not runnin...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Add a message to indicate an error when z/OSMF cannot verify the certificate you provided

An error message indicating z/OSMF couldn't use the certificate provided (visible to the end-user) would decrease the amount of ICH408I messages in our system log. Something like "Certificate not recognized by z/OSMF. Use standard login method ins...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Do not check CDUSE for an active LPA queue CDE.

Do not check CDUSE for an active LPA queue CDE. When more than 32767 LOAD requests for a module on the active LPA queue have been issued, with no corresponding DELETE, this would prevent message CSV002I from being issued and subsequent LOADs for t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Planned for future release

BPXWMIGF Swap Enhancement

I'd like the ability for the bpxwmigf migration tool to quiese the source file system at the end of the copy to target file system process so that the swap can safely be performed even if the source file system is actively being written to or read...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Additional information about the status of Cache Fast Write

Currently there is no easy way to be sure, that Cache Fast Write(CFW) is not used on your system. But in the event of an hyperswap CFW can be a problem. Therefore every customer should know their configuration. The problem is that the "DEVSERV P" ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Need ISPF sample exit cleanup

Hello, In SC19-3619-01 p.234 there is a pointer to a sample panel exit named ISPPXMNX in ISP.SISPSAMP. This sample exit appears to be assembler generated from a PL/X exit and is essentially unreadable. It seems to us that as an example, this is un...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

DFDSS DUMP to have options to process HSM migrated datasets

Users have asked me to raise this issue that they would like DFDSS to be able to dump HSM migrated datasets - possibly by recalling them with NOWAIT, or even by performing some kind of COPYDUMP process directly from the migration volume
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

Allow DHSMSHSM to set a lifecycle policy during bucket creation

We are using IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering and HSM to migrate data to the cloud. We have had instances where the migration fails, which can result in orphaned "multipart uploads in progress" on the cloud object storage. We have been manually remov...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Strengthen the Certificate that authenticates SMP/E Download-Servers (deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com/ deliverycb-mul.dhe.ibm.com)

The Root-Certificate used to sign the Server-Certificates for the SMP/E Download Servers (deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com / deliverycb-mul.dhe.ibm.com) has been created with an old SHA1 algorithm. We would like to ask, if you could create new Server-Ce...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Order/Distr/Install 1 Not under consideration