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Sequential files having more than 32k record length

We have to process sequential files with more than 32k record length. The max lrecl we can specify when allocating sequential files is 32K. Kind regards Konstantinos
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Not under consideration

Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Permit into Sysplex Management z/OSMF plugins, to manage the Preferred List of multiple structure at once

We have to replace CF1 with the CF3 in our CFRM policy, using "Sysplex Management" we were able to add the new CF3 LPAR very quickly, then we moved to change the "Preferred List" to all the Structures defined, but discovered that it's not possible...
9 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

have z/OSMF exploit shared libraries - todayit is just enabled

The default for Java shared library support is to store the information in memory. This means the first time a Java program is started it loads the libraries, and saves the information in memory. The second time the Java program is started it can ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Under review

Usage of the "Common Plattform Enumeration" (CPE) for IBM Products in the "IBM Z an LinuxOne Security Portal" within Resource link

Given that vulnerability and patch management is not only a concern of the z ecosystem in an organization, the software to manage vulnerability data should be able to handle sources and vulnerabilities for multiple platforms. Therefore a standardi...
12 months ago in z/OS / General 5 Not under consideration

Media manager interfaces should provide feedback as to whether writes are actually using zHyperWrite or not

The media manager interfaces don't give enough feedback about whether zHyperWrite is working or not. They only tell a caller that a data-set is zHyperWrite enabled, or not, during initial connect to that data-set. zHyperWrite state can easily chan...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Media Manager 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF store result into log file

We had the situation that an ISV software trys to call an z/OSMF REST API (dataset service). The ISV product only returned HTTP 500. In the z/OSMF logs, also only the HTTP 500 was visible. The error that was seen within z/OS was: ICH408 for $LIBPA...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift - update workflows so can be run from cmd line

The /usr/lpp/zcx_ocp/workflows/ocp_provision.xml workflow can be run from a command line or via the IBM zOSMF Ansible module, without any manual intervention. Other workflows currently require the first few steps to be done manually from the zOSMF...
10 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

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