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SDSF WLM panels should display dynamic information

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 12/04/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: Over the last few releases, SDSF has provided some great new features. One area to be ex...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Avoid HIS's deleting WIC files when WIC collection stopped

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 12/04/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: When you use HIS to record WIC records by using this command: F HIS,WIC,INMEM=IFASMF..W...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Future consideration

Better Alert or Avoid having a UserCatalg allocated elsewhere that in the CAS

The customer has got a problem with a UserCatalog he wanted to move, but this UserCatalog was allocatde in the *MASTER* Adress Space
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 2 Not under consideration

Insufficient information in ADR556W

During a logical copy of a mult-ivolume data set residing on both eav and non-eav volumes, to a mixture of eav and non-eav volumes, this message only provided the data set name, and that Extend Attributes were not retained.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

Update Security Configuration Assistant Plug-In to allow ability to permanently ignore some failures.

If a particular failure will never be changed, this would allow for a "clean" report. This would allow administrators to focus on important failures. A method should also be supplied to examine all excluded failures in case the situation changes.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

LPAR Image Capacity Calculation

When we have set a value for Defined Capacity of 600, the Image Capacity shows me 600 as well. That's reasonable and is comprehensible. As we do not work with Defined Capacity anymore the Image Capacity Value changed. I have Defined Capacity of 0,...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

Record number of ping requests and responses for TCPIP (By interface), as a network debugging aid

I've spend days trying to configure IP V6 and z/OS, (also with 2 TCP images on one LPAR). It has been very hard to see if traffic has got to z/OS, and if the reply came back. With midrange I can use Wireshark. The equivalent packet trace on z/OS i...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RACF won't start in SSI if database disk is unavailable

Running on a z/VM 6.3.0 system in an SSI cluster, the customer's primary RACF database disk became unusable. Symptoms of the unusable database disk include: - When attempting to LOGON to a valid userid, the logon failed with message RPIMGR040T Use...
over 4 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Allow z/OS C/C++ library to write zero-length data set records using record mode processing.

The z/OS C/C++ library will currently not allow the creation of zero-length records using record-mode processing using fwrite(). This applies to RECFM=V*, and RECFM=U. It is possible using text mode, but this does not allow for binary processing. ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Support record-wrapping in the z/OS C/C++ library

There is currently no option in the C/C++ library to wrap when writing data set records in "text" mode. The library *does* do this automatically for spool file data sets, but a line written to a regular data set that is longer than the maximum len...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration