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Eliminate SMF Type30 OMVS process section having all zeros

Provide a means of eliminating OMVS process sections that contain only zeros.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF cannot reconnect after TCPIP recycle

If TCPIP is recycled, z/OSMF makes no attempt to reconnect after TCPIP resumes and, is ready. It does, however, issue messages:[WARNING ] RMI TCP Accept-0: accept loop for ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=1026] throws and...EDC51...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

General settings page for workflows to set time-limitations

Support a new general setting page in Workflows and the user can set the time-limitation for all workflow users in this new general setting page, the time limitation can be set for different scopes, for example: the time limitation can be set for ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 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...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

VSAM RLS KSDS to monitor pseudo splits

Bradesco Bank want IBM to add a way to monitor RLS VSAM (KSDS) 'Pseudo Split' occurrences. Customer wants to have a capability that can be used to implement a governance process for this purpose. "Pseudo split" situation is where new records are i...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

RRSF & RACF LAST-ACCESS field

In our case we have 2 DB racf connected By RRSF.We have the same userids defined in both RACF database.Until some months ago if one userid loggin-on in one database without loggin in the second one, the Last-access field was updated. So the first ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

ISPF MEMLIST - Support DATASET option

The ISPF MEMLIST service is a easy way to invoke the enhanced member list. However it requires a LMMINIT before using. It would be easier to use if it also supported the DATASET parameter
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

CSSMTP text line too long in attached file

CSSMTP reject a mail with message "text line too long". the rejected mail has an attached file with a LRECL 1032 hence the error since CSSMTP enforce RFC2822 which limit the line length to 998 characters plus CRLF. There was not this problem with ...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Improve CONFIGxx PARMLIB member processing for PPRC environments

Background: Currently CONFIGxx members are maintained manually by FI for every system in the sysplex with names CONFIG&SYSCLONE. These members contain desired states for 1. Storage and CPU's that are to be online. 2. Channel paths that should ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

FACILITY STGADMIN for IDCAMS VERIFY

Title “STGADMIN.IDC profile for IDCAMS VERIFY” Target Group: DFSMS & RACFRequest: Addition to RACF FACILITY CLASS CheckingResource Name (proposed): STGADMIN.IDC.VERIFY.DATASETPurpose: To avoid the need for ALTER access to the DS. Sample JCL th...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

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