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z/OS

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Granularity in defining volumes to be for hyperswap within a priceplex

Requirement for the capability of selecting specific volumes not to be taken into account by hyperswap (basic hyperswap / TPC/R) This could be done, for example, by creating a specific attribute in the dasd volume definition
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Provide LE Runtime Option to Defer CICS Program Releases

We use native language calls between our LE modules. Every call results in an EXEC CICS LOAD command followed by a branch. When the enclave terminates, LE issues one EXEC CICS RELEASE for every loaded program each time it was loaded. This results ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration

VTAM display for LU6,2 LUs only

Be able to display the LU6.2 connections/LUs on an Lpar. D NET,STATS shows the total number of 6.2 connections but there isn't a command to show all of the LUs that are 6.2 w/o displaying all of the terminals.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

PBR - Maximum number of routes

Configuring PBR with Configuration Assistant for zCS the maximum number of secondari routes that you can set is seven.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

VERIFYAPPL and VTAM generic resources for TSO

Customers should be able to exploit both VTAM generic resources as well as the TSO VERIFYAPPL function to limit access by system/APPLID. Currently, if one wishes to control exactly which systems a TSO user has access to using the VERIFYAPPL keywor...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Workplace / Include Additional Qualifiers

REFLIST or own defined lists in Workplace don't have a "Include Additional Qualifiers" option.The problem is good described in PMR70035. see IBM Update2016-06-01 10:23.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Missing setsockopt TCP_KEEPALIVE constant and doc

1) TCP_KEEPALIVE is documented in Comm Svr pubs, but not in the C/C++ LIbrary Reference. 2) The constant TCP_KEEPALIVE is not defined in the header files
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Add Outbound Right Sizing Support to z/OS 2.1

Our z/OS 2.1 customer is currently experiencing degraded FTP performance over higher bandwidth/delay link. On z/OS 2.1, TCP send window for FTP on z/OS is limited to 180KB. Outbound Right Sizing (ORS) allows TCP send window for FTP to grow beyond ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

EZBRCIFR in SRB mode

We have upgraded the packet trace feature of our product to use the Real-time application-controlled TCP/IP trace NMI (EZBRCIFR). This will be of great benefit to us and to our customers. Unfortunately, EZBRCIFR returns an error if it is called in...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Add TLSMECHANISM ATTLS or FTP to the output of the LOCSTAT command in the FTP Client

Clients need to know which environment they are running in for auditing purposes.The LOCSTAT FTP Client subcommand should be enhanced to expose the TLSMECHANISM, either ATTLS or FTP.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration