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Add Where used in VIEW DETAILS display of IPSEC rules

When we do a View details it would be great if we can get another spot in the PDF that says what LPARS this is being used in as part of the report
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

KVM for IBM z Systems - RFE Test

Only a test to validate process
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under 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

Please Add Exit for FTP JCL Errors

One of our customers has an JCL job with an FTP step. They are using SITE parameters in that step. When there is an error on the SITE parameter, the user wants to the job to exit with a RC higher than 0. They would prefer RC16. I am not able to he...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Need to break up roles for IPSEC command

We need to get the –f default and the –f reload IPSEC commands seperated from our the other standared commands on the system. This will allow us to assign the proper rolls to them for elevated access. This would also be true for Defense Management...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future 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