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RACF auditing while GDPS hyperswap is active

Support RACF auditing of privileged commands used by xDR proxy servers to perform GDPS hyperswap
about 4 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

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

Improvements to Policy Agent

An expired key causes connection failures to DB2. Looking to improve resiliency within AT-TLS implementation
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

DFSMSdfp Use RACF to protect and control the use of DFSMSdfp dataclass

Datasets are allocated with different characteristics. To prevent allocation of dataset with wrong characteristics we protect certain dataclasses against common use. We basically only control it by using the read-only variables &GROUP and &am...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

Provide Creation Time in ISPF 3.2 for data sets created with EATTR=OPT

Hello, in support of the new Format 9 DSCBs created for data sets defined with EATTR=OPT (or VSAM) on an EAV, ISPF 3.2 displays the creating jobname and creating stepname for the requested data set. But, there's a third information contained in F9...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

For space (Sx37) abends, report nn VOLUMES nnn EXT nnnnnn TRK used.

When you have a space abend, it is hard to determine how much space you had allocated if the dataset is deleted. Giving a count of number of volumes, extents, and tracks would be a great help. Listing each volume with number of extents and tracks ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 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