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Allow NOCOPY or INCREMENTAL to specify in CP Flashcopy.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR080406653User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR080406653Title: Allow NOCOPY or INCREMENTAL to specify in CP Flashcopy.Submitted By: Amin Mawani/CanWest/IBMOriginators Area: IBM Global Services - Canada HOWTOFPOC...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

New CEATOOL Parameter to delete an Incident by the SVC-Dump Name

The CEATOOL has actually only the parameter RETPD to filter which Incidents should be deleted.We need a new parameter to filter the incident deletion by the name of the svc-dump name stored in the sysplex dump directory.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 4 Future consideration

Autoreserve BPXPRM INADDRANYPORTS

In BPXPRMXX you can specify INADDRANYPORT which is used for bind calls. The stack has no indication that these ports have been reserved for this use and you can put a port definition in place without error. however when you attempt to use the port...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Order of mdisk allocation in the upgrade installation method

The procedure used in the upgrade installation method should FIRST allocate the biggest MDISKs. DIRMAINT might be unable to allocate MDISKs if not doing so whereas the total amount of available disk space is large enough..
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

TN3270 access to require user logon to capture user credentials

We'd like TN3270 access to capture a user's security credentials (logon). Tracking users after a TN3270 connection is extremely difficult. We'd like the ability to have their Id available at connection time.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

dfhsm HRecover

DFHSM currently allows HRECOVER commands to be issued on a d/s or per volume basis. Rqmnt: Provide the capability to use dfhsm HRECOVER command to recover an entire Storage Group with a single command.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

HealtCheck msg for OMPROUTE SWAP or NOSWAP

Add a HEALTCHECK msg to indicate if OMPROUTE started SWAP or NOSWAP, the preferred and suggested startup it's a NOSWAP ASID
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Allow ESMs to be deployed one at a time to SSI members

This requirement came from PMR 59002,379,000, Customer UNITED HEALTHCARE SERVICES, Customer representative Mark Wheeler. In summary, Mark would like to be able to install an External Security Manager (ESM) application to each member of his multi-m...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Provide a Means to test RESTRICTED without Failing Acess

Adding RESTRICTED to an ID without first having meticulously permitted all required access can result in access failures. A test mode to report but not fail instances where access would not be granted due to RESTRICTED would provide for a safe tra...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

add time stamp to LOGGER messages

Under certain conditions messages issued by the System Logger are being issued with the NOTIME parameter on the WTO macro. The result of that is that when the messages are written out to a SYSOUT data set managed by JESx, the messages do not have ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 3 Not under consideration