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Move the LSRPOOL Buffers to Above-the-Bar Storage

Move the LSRPOOL buffers from extended above the line storage to above-the-bar storage.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 4 Not under consideration

ability to start RMF dash boards at zOSMF startup

Currently RMF dash boards need to be started by a specific user after that user logs onto zOSMF. These dash boards are limited to use by only the user that starts them and can only go back in time (using retrieve historical data) a relatively smal...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance ICSF to support dynamic Enable and Disable for ICSF TKDS

Current and recent releases of ICSF provide a function to Enable and Disable dynamic updates to ICSF CKDS & PKDS datasets - I believe via PANELID CSFACF00. This function is missing for ICSF TKDS dataset. It would be nice to have consistency a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

LE individual modules CEEROPT and CEEUOPT should be treated the same

CEEROPT and CEEUOPT allow for the passage of LE options at the individual job/application level. However, currently CEEROPT and be loaded from STEPLIB while CEEUOPT requires that it be linked with the application/program. CEEROPT is for region lev...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

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over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Not under consideration

Empowering conditional access to general resources through privileged programs

Some resources different from DATASET also should be accessed through allowed programs. This would allow a refined access to some sensitive resources such as those under SURROGAT (for example, USER1 can submit a job in the name of USER2 only if th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allowing program name masking in conditional access to DATASETS

Multiple program names are allowed in the parameter WHEN(PROGRAM(...)) in the PERMIT command. However this is not practical if many programs starting with the same first characters are to be specified in the list or if a new program, also starting...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Intelligent refresh after a new user/group is added to a resource access list.

After adding an user or group to a resource access list a SETROPTS REFRESH for the class to which the resource belongs is required. This has a huge impact on performance depending on the resource class.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

zos telnet need to support ssl tls1.2

zos telnet cannot support ssl . We are eliminating non secure connection of port 23, 1023, and 2023. our user logon to tso then use option 6 to telnet to another mainframe via unsecure session. We need to have this function secure using like using...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Better Messages and Help for LOGLIM in OPERLOG

If you enter 'F xx PREV' in OPERLOG and get the Message 'TOP OF DATA REACHED' this could mean that you reach top of data or the LOGLIM – there is no way to differentiate what is true. It would be much easier for the user if ‘LOGLIM REACHED' is dis...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

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