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Enhance the HELP Panels in ISMF for OBJECTS

When setting up OAM Objects in ISMF for the first time, I found the HELP panels lacking in detail. They only provide a brief description that uses the name GROUP00. After setting up OAM and working with it for a few weeks, I was able to see that G...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Not under consideration

Auto-RACLIST specific general resource classes

It would be nice if RACF would auto-RACLIST specific general resource classes if they were active and RACLIST required.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enable AUTOR00 to detect and respond to message ILR031A

Hi, during IPL of our newly installed zos 2.5, we are getting message ILR031A that has been added to AUTOR00 but is being ignored and we do need to manually respond. Please see below: DATA SET LAST UPDATED AT 14:32:37 ON 09/12/2022 (GMT) False 202...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 1 Not under consideration

UPD XVFB to have parameter to change /tmp file location

Currently XVFB creates and manipulates certain files under different conditions which it places in /tmp. It would be helpful to have a parameter that could be passed to XVFB upon startup to direct where to place these files currently written to /t...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 3 Planned for future release

Add the sum option to the UCLASS subcommand in Performance Toolkit

z/VSE is eligible for sub-capacity pricing. Then on it could be valuable to know how evolves the sum of the CPU load for all VSE's for which sub-pricing capacity is applied. The FCONTROL DEFLOG subcommand of the Performance Toolkit allows defining...
almost 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Reduce CPU consumption for cipher suites including DH

We call in our CICS applications external webservices and external http requests, which are hosted at external Partners, means there is a http conversation between CICS and an external Partner, in which CICS has the role Client. For security reaso...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / SSL 3 Future consideration

Remove appending a number to <8 character USS forked jobnames

For jobnames that are <8 characters, when the parent process forks a new process the new processes jobname becomes the parent jobname with a number from 1-9 appended. If the jobname is 8 characters long then the child processes jobnames are equ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Enhancement for Encryption Facility Product

Problem when using the command rP Command during Encryption Check PMR 67534 661 706, all details is descripbed in the PMR
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

Increase the number of jobs that can be traced via an IDAVDTxx parmlib trace request

During a VSAM case TS004219577 I had to run multiple VSAM traces to collect trace entries for seperate address spaces, due to the IDAVDT00 parmlib entry being unable to support more than one job in the jobname parameter. If this were increased to ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 0 Future consideration

Encryption of Data In Flight (EDiF) on z/HyperLink

From: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/JP-ENUSJG19-0039-CA/name/ENUSJG19-0039.PDF Fibre Channel Endpoint Security: In the future IBM intends to provide FibreChannel Endpoint Security to extend pervasive encryption on IBM Z, providingadditional da...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Future consideration