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SMP/E BPX.SUPERUSER alternative

The requirement for BPX.SUPERUSER access to install and maintain products with HFS parts is becoming a big problem and some sort of alternative that restricts the use to SMP/E purposes only or somethning like that is needed.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Extend SERVAUTH SAF Name Length Beyond 8 Characters

Please look to extend SAF names beyond 8 characters in the SERVAUTH class.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

HSM should verify if another function needs a tape migration if it is migrating a large dataset.

Customer have impact with a production job that was waiting for a recall data set. It took a long time because HSM was migrating a large dataset and the tape needed was part of the connect set.HSM verifies if another function needs the tape migrat...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

Docoments and messages need to be improved to provide users more information about multi- webispf function in z/OSMF

For z/OSMF users who want to enable multi-webispf functions in zOS JES3 systems in the sysplex, they need to know more information besides what zOSMF is provided currently. The zOSMF documents and the messages provided to users need to be improved...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Request to have a way to change HLQ of ABARS ARECOVER VERIFY CONFLICTdataset

Is it possible for the ARECOVER command option VERIFY to have a sub-option to specify a different HLQ than the default 'id' which is linked to the authorized user ID for DFSMShsm.On our system 'id.agname.CONFLICT.Dyyddd.Thhmmss' is always HSM.agna...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

Health Check for USS mounts would benefit from ability to specify "expected deviation"

In a multi-member sysplex it isn't unusual for a shared BPXPRMxx member to attempt to mount a symbolically described ZFS at a mountpoint already occupied by a data set from another IPL set. This is flagged as a mount failure on the system attempti...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

TCPIP command to terminate IPADDRESS

A command in tcpip to terminate or stop a ipaddress. We can do a drop on a connid or port. Want to have more granualar to terminate or stop a ipaddress from coming inbound to the mainframe. Lets say a illegal intrusion from IDS3270 will show ipadd...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

KEEPLU coding in PARMSGROUP and associated printer function

LUKEEP coded in PARMSGROUP allow to reconnect the same telnet client and still maintain the associated printer device.Test performed by customer to simulate a session drop closing/starting the LU display terminal from client results also in the as...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Change the default port the TSO FTP client uses

We'd like to be able to have the ability to modify the default port the TSO FTP client will use. It defaults to 21 and that can be changed at execution time with an override but we'd like to permenantly change the default so an override isn't requ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

IDS3270 Enhancement command

Forward to Sam Reynold:Jose, > Is there a way that you can make the support function on the appl definition when changing/adding to have it done dynamically. We could probably do that, with the restriction that the monitoring status of any acti...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration