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System Logger: Avoid cutting Logrec Entries for Abend47B of suspended List Transition Exit SRB's

We frequently get logrec entries for an abend47B related to the system logger. In case TS003898376 is has been clarified that the reported abend47B is happening "by design" for the XCF List Transition exit SRB (IXLX1LTE-SRB) under which System Log...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 1 Not under consideration

Performance improvement for FTPs MVSPUT

When the FTP subcommand MVSPUT (introduced with z/os v2r1) is used then for each member transmitted a new data connection is established. For a non-encrypted connection, this is no problem, but for an encrypted connection each of those data connec...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

RMF Recording KiloBytes Transferred

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP98002: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=2 +4=1 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=4 -1=1 Priority=2.5 (Please ignore the vote of 0.0 elsewhere) RMF should collect the kilobytes (KB) transferred for each device on an inter...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Health Checks formatted in a dump

Health check exception information should be included in a dump with IPCS formatters provided.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Future consideration

Override EATTR attribute during Dfdss copy

Why is it useful? Current problem: Unable to use the Cylinder Managed Space (CMS) on an EAV volume during the DFDSS copy of large files. Copy job fails, with space abends even though the space is there. Use case/work around: DFDSS copy of large fi...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Need to cater for changing DLIBs when moving from small to larger volumes (catalog entry mismatch)

zOSMF is currently very restrictive and prevents installation to continue if DLIB catalog entries do not match. Especially in our case where we were moving from 3xMOD9 DLIB volumes to one MOD27 for DLIB datasets. This caused the installation to ha...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 3 Future 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 ...
about 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Future consideration

Configuration Assistant: Ability to copy objects from one backing store to another.

Ability to copy objects (Stacks, rules, groups, traffic descriptions etc.) from one backing store to another. Note: this requirement split out from DW RFE 86000
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Additional variable support in Configuration Assistant

Additional variable support. Especially the ability to supply a variable address group name - such as $LPAR_Group - where $LPAR would be resolved by a Stack Symbol. note: this requirement was split out from DW RFE 86000
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration