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z/OS

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Provide the ability for DSS to be able to scratch and reallocate an in use (ENQed) dataset that is not the actual dataset in use during a logical copy operation.

System programmers who maintain indirectly cataloged datasets on a maintenance sysres / sysres set that gets cloned to an IPLable sysres set.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration
103 VOTE

RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

DSFS createparm limitations

Currently dsadm createparm has following limitation:The user ID of the issuer of the command must match the HLQ (just the first qualifier) in order to be allowed to save creation parameters for the HLQ directory. We have many technical/application...
9 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 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...
2 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration
155 VOTE

Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

RMFIII - Display needed to indicate %age of H/W Group Cap used

Hello IBM, As an example of what we'd like, please take case TS014739169 and also the description below - We have two LPARs in a H/W Cap Group (values taken from RMF PP H A R D W A R E G R O U P R E P O R T) HW GROUP PARTITION SYSTEM ------NAME CP...
12 days ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

In z/OS the client needs a possibility to create keytab files with the option for custom salts to be used with WAS or other Components

Traditionally the keytab utility was shipped with the IBM Java SDK until Java 8 but misses the functionality to use a custom SALT. From Java 11 on, it was not further shipped. IBM z/OS offers a keytab utility but with very limited support to use a...
7 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Allow LDAP servers in a sysplex to share an activity log file

LDAP sysplex setups recommend that all servers in the sysplex share the same configuration file. This cannot be done if activity logging is in use because the LDAP server cannot handle file management during the rollover period. The only way to us...
4 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistant REST API

We get very often requirements to change the IPSec policy to add/remove IP addresses to the different address groups for IPSec. This is very time consuming as sometimes 10 addresses have to be added, sometime 5 have to be removed and so on. Also, ...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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