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Change to the wording of $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(004) NAME=xxxx IS TO BE ADDED

The wording of this Jes2 WTOR does not provide enough information for our operators to make a decision $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(004) NAME=HOD9 IS TO BE ADDED It would be more constructive for the WTOR to read as follows :- $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(0...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

modification to ceatool

When I run ceatool, I receive the error message : CEA0751E Function delete incident failed, return code -1, reason code 0x04480343, diagnostic words [0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00]. CEA0703I /bin/ceatool ended with errors.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 4 Future consideration

LE modification for fork thread behaviour

There are multiple instances in the the core python implementation and in pypi packages where a thread calls fork and the child process tries to create a thread using pthread_create but results in an error. This error is due to the LE design ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

HSM Duplex volume to different esoteric

We need to all HSM to write the primary volume and duplex volumes to different esoterics so that we can select different units to choose which VTL a copy is written on.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 4 Not under consideration

BPXWUNIX to function with binary input streams

Encoding the same input data EFBE8AEFBE9FEFBE9D0A - we get two different results: 776K776f776dCg = (good case) or 776K776f776dChU = (bad case)
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

zOSMF R.M. logical utilization improvements for users with many LPARs

Adding some metrics to a dashboard that are only available per LPAR is extremely annoying and time consuming when dealing with many LPARs. I would like to request some metrics that are available on the CPC panel of RMFIII be made available as metr...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

Would Like to see CPM More Agressive for Increasing Group Capping

We would like to see Capacity Provisioning Manager be more aggressive for increasing the group cap by giving the user more options and more granularity. In our case it took an hour before CPM increased the group cap.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 2 Future consideration

NTP server required because SNTP is not precise enough

Implement a NTP server that is more accurate than SNTP server.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Support for multiple IP-stack per LPAR for use with CP&M resource pools

We have multiple IP-stacks per LPAR.There currently is a limitation to use more than one per LPAR for CP&M Resource pools. This limits us from using CP&M Resource pools cloud provisioning of IP-adresses, which is a very important part of p...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Netcat command unavailable to use with ProxyCommand (trying to SFTP thru Proxy Server)

I tried to sftp thru ProxyServer using option ProxyCommand. Using directiver from openssh.org it is advised to use netcat command, which does not exist in Open Ported Tools.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 2 Future consideration

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