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PAET0311-1383 MP/E UCLIN REP GZONE ZINDEX should only act on selected Zone entry

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Jon.VeilleuxSubmitters Company: Aetna PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PAET0311-1383 MP/E UCLIN REP GZONE ZINDEX should only act on selected Zone entryHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurr...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 3 Future consideration

IDB0214-1675 - Support for 12 decimals on timestamps in system services

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: carsp@danskebank.dkSubmitters Company: Danske Bank /IBM SDC-DK/Danske Bank PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: IDB0214-1675 - Support for 12 decimals on timestamps in system servicesHomework Assigned: NoRequirement C...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Not under consideration

API to zOSMF Configuration Assistant

Would like an API to allow integration of request systems (firewall,policy) output into zOSMF Configuartion Assistant for definition of filter rules etc. without the need to manually provide all the input.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

TCPIP command to terminate IPADDRESS

A command in tcpip to terminate or stop a ipaddress. We can do a drop on a connid or port. Want to have more granualar to terminate or stop a ipaddress from coming inbound to the mainframe. Lets say a illegal intrusion from IDS3270 will show ipadd...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

Communication server CSSMTP ERROR :015:mlCkpUpdateLDS:Checkpoint DIV SAVE

The wording referring to an ERROR in the reported message in sysout LOGFILE would better be changed to WARNING because according to the explanation supplied in pmr it isn't an issue.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

IDS3270 Enhancement command

Forward to Sam Reynold:Jose, > Is there a way that you can make the support function on the appl definition when changing/adding to have it done dynamically. We could probably do that, with the restriction that the monitoring status of any acti...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enable CFVM Thin Interrupts for shared ICFs

When sharing a physical ICF between real CF LPARs and a VM-mode LPAR (for use by CFVMs), the real CF LPARs can set the dynamic dispatch mode to "Thin Interrupt" to reduce ICF usage by any particular LPAR. z/VM use of an ICF in a CF Virtual Machine...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

z/OS support for VM65930, increase length of VMCMD class resources in RACF

VM APAR VM65930 increased length of VMCMD class resources in RACF from 17 to 30 to cater for the longer profile needed to protect the XAUTOLOG <server> ON <rdev> command.The z/OS version of RACF does not support the longer profiles, ca...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

the ability to increase or set ARG_MAX in USS

We are wondering if there is some way to change and set ARG_MAX to a higher value than 1048576 bytes long.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Set slip and other diagnostic data capture parameter in z/OSMF

Sometimes the component or products which generating dump is not the root cause component, the dump for related component cannot be captured timely. The customer understands that nowadays it is still very hard to be smart enough to intelligently c...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration