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SWA SVA changes in z/OS V2.2 do not provide public API to provide SVA address translation for non-IBM dump formatters

• Changes in z/OS V2.2 to SWA SVA, that facilitates SVA translation, have occurred and have subsequently moved these internal control blocks above the bar. • Users of SWAREQ and IEFHQMREQ are not affected, but ISV dump formatters, that will usuall...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Add SOURCEVIPAINTERFACE information to NETSTAT command

When changing from TCPIP device / link to interface statement, customer was unable to verify SOURCEVIPAINTERFACE was in effect and what SOURCEVIPA was being used. The customer requested that SOURCEVIPAINTERFACE information for XCF links to be adde...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

PGAR0109-1197-Increasing the maximum volume count of 59 per data set

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: gulfemo@garanti.com.trSubmitters Company: Garanti Teknoloji PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PGAR0109-1197-Increasing the maximum volume count of 59 per data setHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Tech...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Not under consideration

HIS: produce Jobname/STCName Records for ALL Asids in the System

HIS procedure a ASID to JOBNAME mapping only for JOBs in MAPASID or MAPJOBJ. It whould be more than nice to extend that function on all ASIDs in the System...not one the ones which should be mapped.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Not under consideration

CSSMTP

Would like Cssmtp to release smtp config file after it is done reading the file.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration

IMS List Structure requires Asynchronous Duplexing functionality

It is planned to have the Asynchronous duplexing functionality available soon but only for lock Structures. It would be really useful for us to include in the roadmap the IMS List structure (logger structure and message structure).
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 5 Future consideration

HealthCheck IBMUSS,USS_CLIENT_MOUNTS with NFS unusable

In our environment the health check displays permanently NFS errors which are in our customisation nomal. Everything is working fine, but the HealthCheck is generally unusable with these NFS CLIENT=Y errors. Problem is not solvable thru a change i...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Provide UNIX dirfd() functionality on z/OS for portability

dirfd - extract the file descriptor used by a DIR streamJustification: For purposes of porting code from other UNIX platforms to z/OS support for the OpenGroup defined dirfd() function should be provided so that a directory can be assigned a file ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

z/OS USS DYNACT reset SERV_LINKLIB/LPALIB values back to default

I accidentally set USS SERV_LPALIB to something. Want to reset it back to the default, in my case - NULLS or NONE. There is no way to do it (discussed with John Shebey + John Helmbold).
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

UNIX System Services does not recognize a sysplex-aware filesystem

When a zFS filesystem is dynamically changed from non-sysplex aware to sysplex aware, USS does not recognize the filesystem as being sysplex aware. This can cause confusion as to whether the filesystem is indeed sysplex aware or not. Healthchecker...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 5 Future consideration

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