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Middleware recovery Boost parameters options

Dear Madam/Sir We would like to have the feasibility to change the way that is divided the daily interval of 30minutes of Recovery Boost. It should be useful to have the possibility of customization of thefollowing Middleware Recovery boost settin...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Not under consideration

PDUU (AMAPDUPL) should support UNIX files

We plan to use AMAPDUPL replacing plain FTP for sending dumps, logs, files to IBM for problem determination. Unfortunately, AMAPUDUPL doesn't support Unix file. SYSUT1 is only for sequential dataset and PDS. In order to send Unix files to IBM with...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 6 Not under consideration

Support LogFilter for ibm-filterSubject

Currently, we can set a logfilter for an IP-Adress by using / F ldapuxsl, LOG FILTER,(IBM-FILTERIP=1.2.3.4) In the ACL documentation we find additional filters that can be set for ACLs, for example ibm-filterSubject. Having the Subject filter also...
3 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Display CPU critical tag for dependent/independent enclaves

As per RMF default settings, Storage/CPU critical is only set for only address spaces entries, not for enclaves. My suggestion is to have a default setting to keep the storage/CPU critical display for enclaves in the RMF III. This would help us to...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Allow to populate inactive logger couple dataset with logger policy

When preparing a new sysplex, it is possible to populate other couple datasets like CFRM and SFM in advance with a suitable policy, so that the policies are in place right from the first start of the sysplex. This would be especially useful to be ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 3 Not under consideration

Integrate z/OS REXX StreamIO into base z

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR062511463User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE03020Title: Integrate z/OS REXX StreamIO into base z/OS productSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

OpenShift Foundation for zCX Support for Egress IP addresses

Currently, we're migrating services from OpenShift x86 to OpenShift in zCX. One of our services have to use Egress IP addresses - this is a security requirement. Once we've configured the Egress IPs within OCP@zCX, we see the outbound SYN coming i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Modify IKJPARS so that the parse service routine obtain storage above the line

DFSMSrmm is not able to load a large defaults table. DFSMSrmm is abending with S878 and in some cases DFSMSrmm can't be restartet and an IPL is needed. See the details in case TS016867492. We have converted a retention file with 13.300 entries to ...
3 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

zFS - Update catalog bits also when filesystem is mounted RO

The zFS attributes from the CATALOG will be updated only when the filesystem is mounted RDWR. Meaning when a cluster is allocated with 'DEFINE CLUSTER LINEAIR' (not with ZFS keyword). And afterwards always mounted RO, the catalog is never updated....
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

z/OS UNIX commands in /bin (cat, echo, touch, vi) as well as /bin/sh redirect should tag files.

I find myself tagging existing files that were untagged EBCDIC to work with new open-source ASCII based tools that rely on automatic conversion. A suggestion from Igor Todorovski ( itodorov@ca.ibm.com ): “Could be achieved by providing a new versi...
9 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

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