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Increase sysout of TRSOURCE

System: zVM Actor: System Programmer needing to trace Description: We have a large data stream via UDP Multicast and eventually when we use TRSOURCE we can not even capture 10 seconds of data due to limiting the size of the buffer. We need an alte...
almost 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Capacity to configure and monitor vswitch buffer

System: zVM Actor: System Programmer needing to monitor and manager the size of vswitch. Description: We have a large data stream via UDP Multicast and we find that vswitch is discarding packets when your buffer fills. We need to have the capacity...
almost 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

JCL syntax checking for AVGREC=U with SPACE=(CYL|TRK)

It is currently acceptable to have AVGREC=U and SPACE=CYL, but going to a secondary volume, the allocation changes to TRK. This can cause more than 59 volumes to be used, causing the job to fail. When job is going through conversion,this scenario ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Change the TCP/IP Base Resolver Configuration search order

Move DEFAULTTCPIPDATA so it comes before SYS1.TCPPARMS(TCPDATA) in the TCP/IP Base Resolver Configuration search order.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

Let zOSMF assume that PMR numbers for PDDU are IBM ones?

Hi, When in Incident Management in zOSMF and selecting "Send Diagnostic Data" a PMR number must be entered. It is assumed that the PMR number is not an IBM one unless a box is checked. The default should be that it is an IBM PMR and the checking o...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Metadata for certificates

For certificates, would like metadata that identifies things such as who the cert. was sent to.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Scripting

- Logical Separation- Independence from HW, FW, OS, etc- Ability to combine multiple CCA commands
about 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

Provide the last modified time stamp for a sequential dataset on z/OS

I provide a tool that reads a file, then subsequently updates the file. I want to be able to detect if the file has been modified by another process, but since the sequential dataset does not provide a modification time stamp, I am unable to do th...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Future consideration

Allow NETACCESS to control down to the PORT level

In addition to the functionality given with NETACCESS, add control at the PORT level.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration

z/OS Unix file updates need pathname in SMF type 80 under ISPF

For monitoring WRITE access to USS objects the resulting SMF type 80 records do not provide pathname when using ISPF 3.17 to edit objects. Under these conditions the file descriptors are shown. Please consider update to ISPF and ISHELL to use FOPE...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

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