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    Spot compatibility issue before run-time

    Link-edit message IEW2576I is issued by z/OS BINDER and program run-time failed with S0C1. IEW2576I 5034 RESULTANT AMODE( 24 ) OF ENTRY POINT AND RMODE( ANY ) OF SEGMENT 2 MAY BE INCOMPATIBLE. Since module should have RMODE(24) if it is call...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 1 Planned for future release

    Add HMC Event Monitoring option to include HW MSG Details

    Background: Environment uses HMC Event Monitoring to send emails when an event is open against a CEC (Ex: Call Home .*Service authorization.*# any Service authorization messages). That email does NOT include the IBM case number that is assigned. W...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

    DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
    about 11 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

    HMC WebServices API support for New Certificates

    WS API support should be added to allow generation and import of HMC server Certificates (remote browsing, WS APIs, etc). There needs to be an API to generate the CSR (Certificate Signing Request). There is also a need for an API to then allow the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Planned for future release

    Dashboard that tracks and informs on all z server capacity options , records , dates etc

    Give us a tool to see the state of z server options Active capacity Engine config Any timer that is active on temp capacity - or any other cap type Any date that is pertinent to withdrawal of feature (no option to replenish) Oocod activity Provide...
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Planned for future release

    Implement -h (human readable) option for file related commands (ls, df, du ..)

    hi there, since we don't get the luxury of GNU Tools on z/OS USS i would at least expect an option for human readable output for the basic file related commands (ls, df, du ..). this is something *NIX distributions got decades ago, why not USS? Tr...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

    System Logger offload monitoring should create a diagnostic dump upon detection of an offload delay.

    System Logger offload monitoring provides notification of delays in log stream offload processing with the goal of allowing an installation to take action to prevent log streams filling to capacity, which would result in the failure of IXGWRITE re...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

    An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

    As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

    HMC Support for Secure SMTP and SMTP Authentication

    We have setup e-mail alerts within the HMC that are critical to the operation of our systems. We have a requirement internally to remove insecure SMTP and use Secure SMTP with Authentication. Currently, the HMC does not support Secure SMTP (TLS) o...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 12 Planned for future release

    Need job submitter userid in memory resident location

    To obtain the job submitter of a job requires disk i/o to get the JCTTOKEN out of the JCT for the job and then use RACROUTE REQUEST=TOKENMAP against the JCTTOKEN to convert the security token into human readable text that is mapped by the ICHRUTKN...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Planned for future release

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