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Allow CBU real activation during CBU test

Allow CBU real activation during CBU test.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 6 Planned for future release

JES2 PERFDATA should be written as SMF records for improved usability

JES2 currently provides the results of collected performance statistics in the output of the $D PERFDATA command in many lines of $HASP660 sent to the console and consumable via review of syslog/operlog. The command provides several subscripts, $D...
5 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Make diagnosing IXC440E easier.

when IXC440E message is received the documentation IXC440E - IBM Documentation is complicated. There are multiple displays required to capture required data: Issue DISPLAY XCF commands to get more information about the stalled group members. Use D...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Enhance z/OSMF Desktop Interface

An enhanced user interface will benefit all users by reducing the effort needed to get around in the GUI. Hi, Currently, the z/OSMF Desktop Interface consists of an unstructured group of icons and a status line. When an icon is opened by a double ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to ACEECHK

Add clarification to IRR421I messages and granularity to the Failure option to allow for a more gradual implementation rather than a sledgehammer approach. This would benefit RACF Administrators gradually rolling out the failure option and help RA...
2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

System Recovery Boost for OMVS subsystem

For now, we can't classify OMVS address space as BOOST on WLM policy. So if i have Middleware Recovery Boost who launch an OMVS address space who consume lot of CPU GCP time i don't take any advantage of BOOST feature. For example, ZOWE software c...
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Not under consideration

Allow LDAP server admins to be able to customize SQL queries for LDAP operations.

Due to the wide range of SQL functionality and DB2 database implementations it's possible that certain SQL queries generated by the LDAP server are not optimized for some DB2 databases, a mechanism to allow LDAP admins to customize queries can gre...
9 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant REST API

We get very often requirements to change the IPSec policy to add/remove IP addresses to the different address groups for IPSec. This is very time consuming as sometimes 10 addresses have to be added, sometime 5 have to be removed and so on. Also, ...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

zERT Analyzer - Enhance Query Builder Capabilities

While using the query builder in zERT it does not offer the ability to filter for either 'User ID' or 'Job Name' even those values are reported in the result set. It would be of great benefit if the query would allow to filter already on those two...
9 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Allow changing a internal MIH value set by MODULE IOSVDPDR and IOSRRRSV

There are some Japanese banking customers who issue VARY dddd,OFFLINE,FORCE command when an I/O timeout occurs on a device which have a redundancy by software (ie. IMS OLDS). As a result, these devices for being no-response are separated out and a...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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